In order to be able to use the new "PDF Rendering Mode: New PDF Rendering (Beta), the "Full-Installer-download fw Client app auto-upgrade" needs to be enforced, which will then ensure that the needed "pdf4tcl" extension can get installed.

Before, when using in fw Client > Toolbox > Settings > Misc. > "Never Select Weekends/Public Holidays" turned on, you would either have the correct in-between-Booking work-days OR no Bookings over the weekend; but you were not be able to apply the Template in a way, which would just exclude the weekend days.
This now works.

It is now possible to customize the Booking mouse-over.

Click on the Setup Booking Mouseover Info button in Toolbox > Settings > Server Setup.

In the next window click on available display options to move them into the Selected pane, where you can drag and drop to adjust the order of the items. Note: You can add up to three separator lines.

In order to use this option:

1. Go to fw Client app > Object Manager and use "New In > Services" to create a new Service Object and name it "Insurance". Add a Markup more than 0.

2. Enable the new setting in fw Client app > Toolbox > Settings > Server Setup > “Enable Insurance Markup Option On Bookings”.

When this "Insurance" Service is added to a Booking, it will calculate a markup based on the Total Sell price of the Booking, considering Discounts or Price Agreements added to the line items.

This calculation is based only on the Booked Objects, and not on Extras added via the Timereport.

This Service can be configured as a "Pre-defined Extra" on a specific "Booking Names" template, e.g. "External Equipment" (to configure this go to fw Client app > Toolbox > Settings > Booking Defaults > "Booking Names & Customs").

There's now a new column called "Counter" in the Budget window, and a new field inside the Category/Account groupings of the Financial Report. It contains an auto-incremented counter for each Category/Account that actually contains any Budget Details or Actuals.

This counter value can be used if you need a consecutive number series for used Budget Categories and Accounts.

When you dragged a mix of Object Classes with different quantities (e.g. some 2 days and some 1 day) onto a day in the Long Form, and then selected "Yes" in the "Allocate Objects For Classes?" dialog, it would loose the timing info on some (if not all) objects. So they would have the same quantity as the first object.
Now it correctly sets the quantity for each individual object that is allocated.

When dragging certain Budget Details to the timeline, the booked actuals would not get attached to the dragged Budget Detail.

When you delete an object from the database, it doesn't get deleted from existing Budgets. So Budgets can contain objects that no longer exist in the database. But such objects can not be booked in the timeline. And when you dragged Budget Details with those deleted objects to the timeline, it would just not do anything.
Now it will show an error dialog saying that the object no longer exists.

When you dragged objects from a Budget to a day in the Long Form, there was a bug that made it add the objects in a different order than they had in the Budget.

Additionally, whenever you selected "Yes" in the "Allocate Objects For Classes?" dialog, those allocated objects would always be added last. Now they instead maintain the same position as the class they came from.

When you had multiple Budget Details for the same object, and you dragged them to the Timeline, it failed to attach each Booking line to their respective Budget Details.
It would instead attach all of them to the last Budget Detail. This is now fixed.

This means, that when manually downloading the "standard" fw Client desktop 64bit app or when getting it "served" after the upgrade of the farmerswife system, this is now the "Retina" optimized app.
The actual "Retina optimization" improved text and image sharpness to become visible, requires to run the fw Client app on a Mac with a "Retina" screen.

It was already possible to set clients as financially blocked, by using the option "Client Financial Control On Project" (in Server > Setup > Financial tab), and select what should happen once the credit limit was reached.

Once enabled, you could set a client as "Financially Blocked" via the Client Details tab in the Contact window, affecting the Contact (not the Company), and a "Credit Limit". Then, depending on the "Behavior" configured in the server, when booking or adding any cost that would exceed the credit limit, you would either be stopped, or warned, or allowed to continue.

Now we have enhanced this feature by adding the following functionality:

This option now applies at Company level. If a Company has more than one Contact, it is enough that you change only one.

In the Advanced Contact Search, you can highlight one or more clients from the results pane, and select "Set Financially Blocked To: Yes" or "Set Financially Blocked To: No" from the drop-down menu.

There is also new search field to filter by Financially Blocked, with three states:
- disabled (by default) to not consider the field when searching;
- when ticked you can search for financially blocked clients;
- when unticked you can search for clients that are not financially blocked.

And you can also see the values under the results pane, by configuring to see Financially Blocked as a column (in drop-down menu > Edit Views).

When creating invoices, you can see if clients are financially blocked in Invoice Manager.

Similarly here, add the column "Financially Blocked" (in drop-down menu > Edit Views) and use the search filter as explained above for Contact Search.

Also here you can change the value on a specific invoice by highlighting it and selecting "Set Financially Blocked To: Yes / No".

The changes you do on an Invoice will also apply to the Contact, and viceversa.

In order to start using this Setting go to: fw Client > Toolbox > Settings > Server Setup > "Force Unique Client Number And Enable Warning". In order to start using it, this needs to be manually turned ON/enabled.

Once this option is enabled, it gets triggered when opening and thus checking and updating a Contact if the "Client Number" does not contain a unique Number value. If it's not unique, a Warning message pops up informing that the "Client Number Is Not Unique" and that this value was now updated to the first unique Number.

When doing so, this feature respects the configuration in fw Server > Setup > Contacts > for the "Company Relations" Settings, where if "Client Number" is enabled to be a "Company Relation" then the "Client Number" will be the "shared" or the same for all Contacts of a Company.
If the "Company Relations" is not turned on for "Client Number", then each Client Contact will get or will use a unique "Client Number" value.

It is now possible to show in the Project Report and in the Dispatch Report, if an Object is a "Virtual Object", due to the newly added "[D: Is Virtual Object]" Element to the Element Row section.

This is needed if a Virtual Object is setup as an Accessory to its "main" or "parent" Object.
If more than one of the same Virtual Objects is added to an Object as an Accessory, those Virtual Object were previously bundled in the Reports, showing them in one line with the Total amount of the Virtual Objects.
And it is now possible with the new "Is Virtual Object" Print Designer Element to distinguish these from a "parent" Object with Accessories, by setting up needed String Operators against them for the sorting to take place within the Report.

String Operators setup:
1. Main Object:
In the Element section make a copy of the element "D:[Name]" and give it a new name, for example "Main Object". Create a String Operator using "String Compare".
Compare What: "Object Has Parent"
How: Equals
With: No
Return: Input
Else Return: Nothing

2. Accessory with its own Accessories:
Make a new copy of the element "D:[Name]" and give it a name, for example "Main Accessory".
Here you will need to add two String Operators:
2.1 "String Compare":
Compare What: "Object Has Parent"
How: Equals
With: Yes
Return: Input
Else Return: Nothing

2.2 "String Compare":
Compare What: "Object Has Children"
How: Equals
With: Yes
Return: Input
Else Return: Nothing

3. The rest of the Accessories which do not have an Accessory of their own:
Compare What: "Object Has Children"
How: Equals
With: No
Return: Input
Else Return: Nothing

4. Make a copy of the element "D:[Accessory]" and call it "Virtual Object Accessory".
Compare What: "Is Virtual Object"
How: Equals
With: Yes
Return: Input
Else Return: Nothing

5. Make a copy of the element "D:[Virtual Object Accessory]". Rename it for example to: "Non Virtual Object Accessory".
Compare what: "Is Virtual Object"
How: Doesn't Equal
With: Yes
Return: Input
Else Return: Nothing

This way you can edit the Virtual Objects to not show in bold, as you would show the Accessories that have Accessories itself.

When preparing the list of equipment for a job, if you start from the Edit Booking window > "Create Dispatch" button, you can book by only using the Object Class as "TBD" (To Be Determined), so when the Dispatch is created, the warehouse people would see the list and start assigning specific equipment (i.e. Objects from farmerswife, e.g. by scanning them).

In some scenarios, you would start directly from a Check Out (without a booking). The issue was that it was not possible to add an Object Class into a Check Out.

This is now supported, and you can search for and add Object Classes via the "Add Object (Name)" search field in the Check Out window.

Added the text “Not Allowed For Multiple Check Outs” to the current Booking History line: “Removed (Dispatch)” in the following scenario:

When creating a Dispatch > Check Out from a Booking that contains a Object multiple times, and if that Object doesn’t allow "Multiple Check Outs" (on the Object > “Allow Multiple Check Outs” check-box is OFF), farmerswife now removes those duplicates from the Booking after creating the Dispatch.
Before there was no extra info to know this had happened. Now, the Booking History contains the info: “Removed (Dispatch)”.

If you are going to use the new option to manage "financially blocked" clients and their invoices, you might find helpful to also see this info when running a Financial Report either on a Project or Invoice.

A new Element called "Financially Blocked" has been added in the "From Clients" tree, for both Project grouping and Invoice grouping, in Financial Reports.

Select this element if you want to show that the client is blocked (value = Yes) or not blocked (value = No).

When you reported on an Invoiced Booking that spanned multiple days, all values (quantity, total sell, etc) in the Booking would be attributed to the first day in the Booking - even if you used the "Force Class Booking Into Separate Days" or "Financial Lines In Range" settings. Now it will respect those settings and split the Booking into days when possible.

Recent changes have been made to how Invoiced numbers are calculated for Bookings, where it is now able to split numbers better across the Booking's days. But there was a bug in there related to Credit Notes. If you credited the Booking, or part of it, the Buy/Sell totals would be doubled instead of decreased.

Since each day becomes its own Invoice line, those lines shouldn't have a per-day breakdown.
And in that scenario it also shouldn't go to "get_lines_from_cb" because it would result in returning all lines for each line (so multiplying the lines), and in any case the invoice line itself is enough.

Also the mouse-over-Framework-yellow-pop-up was also lost in different scenarios.

If there were two Projects in the Longform > Projects tree where one is highlighted, but you delete an Object of a Framework Cell of the Project that wasn't highlighted the Framework Cell Object didn't get deleted, as the Project focus didn't change correctly to the Project where you are deleting an Object. Now it does.

The new "Google Invites" options are located in fw Client > Toolbox > Settings > Server Setup > "Google Invites:" area.
By using this setup, it is now possible to use "Google Cloud" and "Google Workspace" by creating a "Google Service Account" with domain delegation.

The configuration takes a moment of time.
Please use this detailed article on how to set this up:
https://support.farmerswife.com/support/solutions/articles/17000117002-configuring-google-invites-connector-to-use-your-own-domain

New for 6.7, we have 32 New User icons starting from "user_brick-01". There are also some additional "Other" icons for use with Objects, that you are able to change within the icon selector of an Object within the Object Manager.

This added support for the macOS 64bit fw Client app to now "open as any other app" by double clicking it from within the "Applications" folder, required to add the needed "notarization" from Apple.

When running the macOS 64bit fw client desktop ("on macOS Mojave or later") app package the first time after the installation with a double click, it will now tell the user with a single prompt that it is trusted by Apple. Notarization gives users more confidence that the farmerswife macOS 64bit fw client desktop app installer has been checked by Apple for malicious components.

This setting is ON by default, to ensure previous default behaviour to work as before.

If you then disable “Mark Invoice As Paid According To Payment Terms”, then the set "Payment Terms" set on the Contact type Client like “Payment in Advanced", "Net Cash", "C.O.D (Cash On Delivery)” will not mark the Invoice as “Paid” at the moment of moving it to the “Invoice Manager”.

This change is available with latest Mac Kiosk version 2.6.13.

This notification will be triggered when the Status of an Involved User changes from "Pending User’s Approval" to "Declined" or "Approved" (by User).

If the Web Profile setting "User Must Accept Or Decline New Booking" (in Web Profile > Events > Objects > His Own Object) is set and the User is added to a Booking that he then declines/approves, the Person who is added to the "Alternate Email" box will receive the notification.

If various Users have declined/accepted the same Booking, one Email per Booking is sent out.

To enable this Notification an Advanced User needs to configure the Toolbox > Settings > Notifications > Global Notifications:
- On Booking Declined By User - Only Alternate Email
- On Booking Accepted By User - Only Alternate Email

Also the email addresses must be added under the "Alternate Email" button.

To include the additional details below to the email check the: "Include Details To Alternate Email".
- Involved User (who "accepted/declined")
- Project Name (Number)
- Booked Object Class
- Date(s) - Time - Week Day(s)
- Buy Rate

The option “Replace With Available Class Member” (Booking Menu > Booking Object) was before only available for "Task / Bookings / Rates" Advanced users.

To access this setting go to: fw Client app > Toolbox > Settings > Class/Object > "Allocate Object Even If It's Not Available".

Go to fw Client > Toolbox > Settings > Server Setup > “Print Designer Version” by which you can select and keep using a specific version of the Print Designer, while we continue fixing and adding new versions solving other issues.

This latest “Print Designer Version: 5" is specially focussed on fixing Page Breaks issues caused within the Total sections, when using multiline texts and many “dynamic” Total values positioned next to each text line.

Summary of all 5 “Print Designer Version" options:
1: Default "Built In PDF Printer".

2: To help when using Print Designer Templates with many "loops" and Rectangles.

3: Specially focused to fix issues on Print Designer Templates, where the Text Elements do not aligning properly after a Page Break, where this is caused by using multiple-line texts in "Loop" and "Page" positions with Rectangles causing Page Breaks.

4. Specially focused to fix issues on Print Designer Templates, where in the template's "Setup" "Show Header In Each Page" is being used. This could wrongly cause, that some Text Elements were wrongly overlapping after a Page Break.

5. Specially focused to fix issues on Page Breaks issues caused within the Total sections, when using multiline texts and many “dynamic” Total values positioned next to each text line.

The "SUM()" feature is mainly used in the Footer section of the Print Designer.
If you linked this to a Print Designer loop higher up, for the Total to appear higher up on the page, the link was wrongly causing to double the Total displayed in the higher-up loop.
This fix prevents the doubling of the resultant figure, displaying the correct figure in loops higher up on the page.

When adding a new Object to the Dispatch with a Quantity of more than one, it was wrongly showing only 1 as the Object's quantity even though there were multiple. Now the correct Quantity is shown on the Report.

This new added setting is located in fw Client > Toolbox > Settings > Server Setup > “PDF Rendering Mode” with the following 2 options:
- Default current: “Default Rendering (Faster/Optimized For Texts)”
- The new option: “Image PDF/Antialiasing (Optimized For Images)”

The image print quality on the new fw Client 64bit app will show the most improvements when printing from Mac. On Windows the improvements are not so strong.
We are still not satisfied with the current image quality and we are still working on this!

Go to fw Client > Toolbox > Settings > Server Setup > “Print Designer Version” by which you can select and keep using a specific version of the Print Designer, while we continue fixing and adding new versions solving other issues.

This latest “Print Designer Version: 4" is specially focused to fix issues on Print Designer Templates, where in the template's "Setup" "Show Header In Each Page" is being used. This could wrongly cause, that some Text Elements were wrongly overlapping after a Page Break.

Summary of all 4 “Print Designer Version" options:
1: Default "Built In PDF Printer".

2: To help when using Print Designer Templates with many "loops" and Rectangles.

3: Specially focused to fix issues on Print Designer Templates, where the Text Elements do not aligning properly after a Page Break, where this is caused by using multiple-line texts in "Loop" and "Page" positions with Rectangles causing Page Breaks.

4. Specially focused to fix issues on Print Designer Templates, where in the template's "Setup" "Show Header In Each Page" is being used. This could wrongly cause, that some Text Elements were wrongly overlapping after a Page Break.

Now, farmerswife auto-run a "Scan Fonts" after “fw Server start” and “fw Client login” when:

fw Client login:
- After an upgrade (revision change) or PDF Rendering Mode has changed since last "Scan Fonts"
- If the Fontmap.GS file doesn’t exist or corresponds to another PDF Rendering Mode (e.g. when testing different Templates on the same machine).

fw Server start (INIT):
- If the Fontmap.GS file doesn’t exist or corresponds to another PDF Rendering Mode (e.g. when testing different Templates on the same machine).
For this case there are new fw Server app Log lines (also logged on the fw Server's log.txt):
“Fontmap: File Format Check Starts” and ...
"Fontmap: Starting New Font Scan To Fix File Format" ... or ...
"Fontmap: File Format Check OK".

If a page height or width is adjusted on the Print Designer, this is reflected on the exported PDF, by the PDF page being expanded to match the new page size from the Print Designer.

This applies to both single templates, and single templates within a Group Template.

Making direct printing available only on Mac

If you have created some new elements in the Project/Invoice Report Details or Element Row section using string operators or if you have number values added to custom fields you can create a Total of these values in the Project and Invoice Reports.

In the Report Total section click on the green plus icon and select "Text". In the Text box add the word SUM followed by a parenthesis containing the name of the element that should be summed up, for example if you created a new element called "Sell Row Editors", then the formula in the Text field should be SUM(Sell Row Editors). This will sum up all values from the selected element.

Note that if the number is round, i.e. does not have any decimals, the total will not show 00 for decimals.

Due to performance issues a auto-load limitation was introduced for "Auto from View Port" feature, accessed via fw Client > Long Form > Projects tree icon click > "Auto from View Port".

When auto-loading Projects based on the selected time period in the "View Port" section and using the "Auto from View Port" feature, it would only load max. 51 Projects which have Bookings in the selected timer period.

This limitation has now been changed and is now linked to the "Maximum Hits When Searching" Setting (located in fw Client > Toolbox > Settings > Miscellaneous > "Maximum Hits When Searching").
If "Maximum Hits When Searching" is set to 100 - then the "Auto from View Port" will now load max. 100 Projects in the Projects tree, etc.

A new line "Group Member Alert" was added to the new "Consumption Report", which is available in fw Client > Long Form > Classes (Availability) icon mouse click > Reports > "Consumption Report".

If a Member of a Group is booked, the Group will show a yellow warning triangle icon.
This will now also be shown and added to the sum of the Bookings per day.

Added new report in Long Form > Classes (Availability) tree > Reports > "Consumption Report" to display % of usage per Total amount of Class Members vs number of Bookings, see details.

This new consumption report allows you to load one or multiple Object Classes and run a monthly report on the selected Classes. The report will be shown horizontally in landscape mode and the month is the current month selected in the View Port. Even if you just select a few days, the whole month will be shown.

Inside of the report you can show the total members of an Object Class and run the calculation against the daily Bookings or Tasks that have been created on any of the Object Class members.
You can also show External Hires: Those will emerge from any Availability that is shown as "-1, or -2" in the Class Tree.

Please note: In the Class Tree Tasks Bookings, confirmed and preliminary Bookings as well as planning Bookings are considered and will count as Usage or lower the Availability of the Object Class per day. E.g. two half day Bookings will not show as 2 Objects taken or booked, they will be considered as one Object not available or used.

The fw Server-side error message could contain this info:
"Error (XML PORT): cannot start a transaction within a transaction
cannot start a transaction within a transaction"

The Project Selector window opens when:
- booking in the Hourline or Long Form and selecting "Booking On <Search Projects>" from the drop-down menu, or when
- selecting "Project On <Search Project>" from the Long Form > Project tree drop-down menu.

This "Project fast-picker" window is now improved to only search by Project Name and sort the results alphabetically by Project Name.
Before it was also searching on other Project fields, and the results were listed in a random way.

It is now possible to change on the Web Client the language to "German".
In this first version, only the terms "Time Report" and "Time Reports" will be translated and are now called: "Produktionsbericht" and "Produktionsberichte".

The latest iOS farmerswife app is v5.0.839 and is available on Apple's App Store since 3rd-July-2020.
IMPORTANT: Requires iOS 12 or later.