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= Release Notes =

Build number: 9.14.7.0
Release date - EARLY ADOPTER - January 2019

 New Features and Key Enhancements 

Front End

Bug Fixes

Hardware Integration

Terminal Services Printer Device Routing (16812) – Updated how Advantage identifies printers being used over terminal services and the new hosted solution provided via Xn. The Device Routing screen has been widened to show more information and the connected printers are now visible via a new tab on the Advantage Menu screen. There are new Management Console settings; ‘ApplyRedirectedPrinterRegEx’ to enable the new functionality and another ‘RedirectedPrinterRegEx’ to set the regular expression that is applied to the printer names.

See also Known Issues below.

USB Cameras Over RDP (19074) – Updated how Advantage connects to webcams thus now allowing it to recognise remote desktop camera devices. There are no new settings for this functionality.

Bug Fixes

 Technical Release Notes 

TLS 1.2+ (18850, 18851, 18852, 18864) – The Advantage services have been updated to work with TLS 1.2 and above.

.Net Framework 4.7.2 (17648) – Advantage now uses .Net Framework 4.7.2 in order to be able to make use of TLS 1.2 and above. If not already present, this will be installed as part of the upgrade.

Note: A reboot will be required after the .Net Framework is updated.

Advantage Deployment Package (19177) – A new Advantage deployment package was required following transfer of development to Visual Studio 2017 and .Net Framework 4.7.2.

 Known Issues  If using https The “OnDemandSoap” and “ExternalMessaging” services need the security mode changed to “Transport” in the TLMSAdvantage.exe.config. If using the redirected printers functionality, ensure that the Windows option “Use Remote Desktop Easy Print printer driver first” is disabled; this setting is under Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services\Remote Desktop Session Host\Printer Redirection\ in the Group Policy Editor. If this setting is not disabled, receipts will be incorrectly formatted. (TFS 17436) Previously, when Advantage was first opened on a new workstation, there was functionality to add that workstation and allocate a licence to it, unfortunately this functionality is currently failing and presenting an error. Instead, adding workstations and allocating licences need to be done via the Management Console; details of both functions can be found in the Advantage Management Console Manual (sections 2.1 and 4.2.2).

 Patches Available Post Upgrade/Install 

The following patches are available for Advantage 9.14 – see Advantage 9.14 patch installation document for more details on installing each patch.

Patches are located within the Advantage installation folder on the Xn ftp.

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Build number: RC3 (9.13.22)
Release date - EARLY ADOPTER - August 2018

 New Features and Key Enhancements  Dual Receipt Printing (6561/6575) – Dual receipt printing allows selected stock items to be printed at a configured secondary receipt printer, for example where hot food is being sold at site hot food stock can be configured to print a second receipt at a receipt printer setup in the kitchen. The stock items will still appear on the receipt printed from the primary printer. If Table Number has been added to the transaction (see Table Number ePOS Button 6562 for more information) then Table Number will also be printed on the second receipt.

Individual Workstations can be configured to send a secondary receipt, a second stock receipt will only be printed from Workstations that have a secondary printer configured. Device Routing for a secondary printer has been added to the Back Office, for more information on configuring the secondary printer see section 3.3.2 Device Routing in the D4.# A9.13 D2 training manual.

The stock items that will send an additional receipt to the secondary printer are configured in the new Additional Module ‘Secondary Receipt Configuration’. Access to the ‘Secondary Receipt Configuration’ Additional Module is controlled by the new security setting ‘Configure secondary receipt items in Additional Modules’, access to the ‘Advantage Configuration’ security setting will also need to be granted in order to be able to access the Additional Modules. For more information on configuring stock for secondary receipt printing see section 10 Secondary Receipt Printer in the D4.# -A9.13 D2 Training Manual.

Table Number ePOS button (6562) – An additional button has been added to the ePOS screen in Advantage called ‘Table Number’, when selected this allows a table number to be added to the transaction, when the transaction is completed the table number will appear on the receipt. If a secondary receipt is printed (see Dual Receipt Printing 6561/6575 for more information) then the table number will also be printed on the secondary receipt. See section 3.2.1 ePOS Button Functions in the D4.# A9.13 D6 Training Manual for more information.

QR Code Printing (10335) – Functionality has been added to allow Advantage to be able to print a QR code instead of a Barcode code for Tickets that will be used for Access Control. This functionality is enabled by entering Q into the ‘ACTicketBarcodeType’ Management Console settings. Even when printing QR codes for tickets, Barcode printing will still need to be enabled for tickets in the Activity Maintenance.

If you choose to, a receipt number can be printed as a QR code. To print a receipt number as a QR code, Q needs to be entered into the ‘ReceiptBarcodeType’ Management Console setting.

The ‘ACTicketStyle’ and ‘ReceiptBarcode’ Management Console settings have been updated to include QR Code printing as well, this has been represented on the description for the settings which can be viewed in the Management Console setting or in the Management Console Guide.

This functionality was patched for earlier versions.

Printing Additional Prefix Or Suffix on Advantage Tickets (8859) – Functionality has been added to allow a character or symbol to be printed as a prefix or suffix to the PIN when printing tickets via Advantage. This functionality is controlled by entering a character or symbol into the new Advantage Management Console settings ‘ACTicketPINPrintSuffix’ and ‘ACTicketPINPrintPrefix’.

Welsh / English Translation On Receipts & ePOS Screen (9620) – A new Management Console setting ‘ReceiptLanguage’ has been added to Advantage, when set to ‘CY-GB’ the hard coded text on the Advantage ePOS summary and Advantage receipt will display both the English and Welsh translation. When translation is enabled only the hard coded text on a receipt will be translated, text entered into Advantage by the customer, such as Activity Names, Ticket Names, Hire Items, will not be translated.

N.B When this functionality is initially enabled Hire items will need to be re-saved in the Ticket Configuration screen in order for the ‘Hire rates’ translation to take effect on the receipt and ePOS screen.

Receipt Audit (8825) – An Advantage receipt number is taken when an item is added to the ePOS or Horizons basket. Reserved Receipts will appear in the Reprint Receipts view in cases where an Advantage receipt number has been taken by another Xn Application or when an Advantage transaction has been lost due to break in connection. This is to show that Advantage receipt numbers are not arbitrarily being skipped. The receipt number, Xn application that claimed the receipt number and the date and time the number was claimed will all appear on the Reserved Receipt as well as a message explaining that full details of this receipt have not been recorded.

Extended Sundry Receipt Description (5877) – The amount of characters that can be entered into the Sundry receipt descriptions on the ePOS has been extended from 25 characters to 200 characters to allow lengthier notes to be entered.

Invoice Reports Site Selection Parameter (17572) – To allow a user to run an Invoice Report against a specific site, a site selection parameter has been added to the following reports:

·       Credit Notes Report

·       Paid Invoice Report

·       Raised Invoice Report

·       Unpaid Invoice Report

Bug Fixes

Caretaker Report Account Names (14193) – The existing caretakers report that contains front desk Bookings and Management Bookings has been updated to include the account name for a Management Booking in the ‘Person’ column.

Venue, Location & Activity Opening Times (11189/13321) – Opening times can be configured at three levels; Venue (Estate Setup in Dimension, Site Details and Prices in Standalone Advantage), Location (Activity Location) and Activity (Activity Per Location). This gives several possibilities for the opening times that could be applied when creating a Management Booking; when determining the times to apply, Advantage will now apply them in the order below:

·       Activity Per Location – opening times set specifically for a location in Activities Per Location

·       Activity Location – opening times set for the location in Activity Location

·       Venue – opening times set for the venue as configured in Dimension (or in Site Details and Prices in Standalone Advantage)

This enables you to set the venue opening times to your true public opening times, yet allows you to make Management Bookings beyond those opening times.

Headcount Report (11194) – An additional parameter has been added to the daily/weekly/monthly headcount report to include or exclude unpaid/unattended bookings. This option is available as two separate fields for front desk Bookings and Management Bookings.

Ranged Booking Confirmation Report (6076) – A new Advantage report has been created to be able to view Management Booking Accounts with outstanding debt over a selected period. If required, this report can be run against a specific Account Name or all Accounts.

Bespoke Booking Confirmation and Invoice Paths (6038) – If Xn has provided a bespoke Booking Confirmation and Invoice reports they can be stored in a separate file location to ensure they are not replaced after an upgrade. Management Console settings have been added to point Advantage towards these bespoke files ‘BookingConfirmationReportFilePath’ and ‘InvoiceReportFilePath’. When these settings are blank the existing paths are used by default.

N.B When entering the file paths, ensure that the path includes the name of the rpt file, for example c:\CustomConfirmation\BookingConfirmation.rpt

Bug Fixes

Sessions Default Attended (13378) – Currently when the ‘SessionsDefaultAttended’ Management Console setting is configured, people who enrol onto a session within the session default attended period will automatically be marked as attended. A change has been made to the Management Console setting to include session that have been paid for within the sessions default attended period. Now any enrolment made or any enrolment paid for within the session default attended period will be marked as attended. The ‘SessionsDefaultAttended’ Management Console setting does not affect enrolments or payments made through Horizons.

Bug Fixes

Member Mailing (Standalone Advantage) (13480) – As part of GDPR members / prospects need to give specific consent for marketing, to be in compliance with this the ‘Mailing OK’ checkbox will no longer be ticked automatically when a member is added to standalone Advantage.

N.B A script is available for standalone Advantage customers that will set existing members / prospects ‘Mailing OK’ flag to ‘No’. Specific re-consent can then be re-acquired from the member / prospect. If this script is required please contact your CRM to arrange for this to be run at time of upgrade.

This functionality was patched in an earlier version.

View Member DOB (9643) – A new security setting has been added ‘person – DOB visibility’. When this setting is set to No Access a member or casual’s date of birth is hidden from the user (staff) on the Person Summary screen and when creating a Booking. Also, users with No Access to ‘person – DOB visibility’ security setting will not be able to view the ‘Birthdays’ report.

In a standalone Advantage database the ‘person – DOB visibility’ setting will also prevent a user from editing a members or casuals date of birth if set to No Access.

BACS Loyalty Dimension Integration (9205) – An Additional Module has been added to allow Loyalty Points to be awarded from Dimension BACS submissions. The ability to view this additional module is controlled by an Advantage security setting ‘Administration Task BACS Loyalty’, access to the ‘Advantage Configuration’ security setting will also need to be granted in order to be able to access the Additional Modules. See section 5.4 ‘BACS Loyalty Points In Dimension’ in the Advantage Loyalty Training Manual for further information.

Bug Fixes

Gemtag Keyboard Wedge Emulation (KWE) Reader (13287/12148) – Integration with the Gemtag KWE readers has been added to Advantage as an alternative to the Gemtag IP readers (that for some customers lose connection). These readers need specific Xn pre-programming by the manufacturer to be able to read both Xn encoded and UID numbers where available. If wanting to purchase these readers please contact your Xn Account Manager.

This functionality was patched for earlier versions.

POS Pole Integration (10360) – The POS Pole provided by Partner Tech can be used with Advantage. The standing POS Pole terminal will display transaction information on its screen to the customer as it is being processed. Fitted with a telescopic pole that can be set at four different heights and a head that can rotate up to 270 degrees and tilt up to 35 degrees, the POS Pole can be adjusted to fit at a variety of Workstations. If interested in purchasing the POS Pole please contact your Xn Account Manager.

Xn DESfire Card Format (10457) – Xn is now able to offer encoded MIFARE DESfire cards in addition to the MIFARE Classic. The DESfire cards offer greater security features but require different access control readers (the Gemtag reception readers can read both card types).

Bug Fixes

New Xn Logo (6574/12723/15601) – Advantage has been updated with the new Xn logo, this includes the Advantage desktop shortcut icons.

Hide Report Builder (6779) – The report builder functionality is now disabled by default as it has been deemed end of life. A new Management Console setting ‘AdvantageReportBuilder’ has been added to enable this functionality for those who already have working reports, enter ’1’ into this new setting to enable this functionality.

The ‘AdvantageReportBuilder’ Management Console setting needs to be installed manually, if required please contact your Project Manager/CRM.

Bug Fixes

Additional Work For Income Analysis (11307/11317/11321/11323/11328/12992/13002/13036/14003) – Some proprietary work, such as adding/removing table columns, has been completed in Advantage in preparation for the release of the new Income Analysis module:

Additional Work For Block Bookings (6686/8212/8222/8235/8267/14545/17658) – Some further work has been completed in Advantage in preparation for the release of the Block Bookings module, this includes some database changes that have been logged in the Technical Release Notes section.

 Technical Release Notes 

Verifone Validation Switch (6775) – Xn are not always aware when third parties that we integrate with are making changes to their applications, so the Management Console setting ‘OciusValidation’ was added in order to be able to switch off Verifone validation in instances where Verifone have made changes independently that cause validation to fail.

Cash Drawer Table Changes (17648) – Changes have been made to the Advantage cash drawer database tables to support future Block Bookings functionality. A new database column called ‘cashupPK’ was added to the cashup table and is now the primary key, the cashupPK will now be the value written to the ‘payCashupSeqNo’. A foreign key to force this relationship has also been added.

A new Management Console setting ‘CashDrawerAtWorkstationLocation’ was also included in these changes, currently however this setting should not be used and left at its default value (0).

Bug Fixes  Known Issues 

 Patch available post upgrade/install 

'''The following patch is available post upgrade/install of Advantage 9.13 see below for more information on the patch. See the Advantage 9.13 Patch Installation document for more details on installation of the patch.'''

The patch can be found in the Advantage 9.13 patch folder on Xn’s ftp Back to top