[[:whats_new_in_5.7|Whats New In Control 5.7]]

With the release of Control 5.7 there were two new major features added to the program, as well as a number of various bugs fixed and other non-major features added.

**Below are links for each of the new major features:**

|{{:calendarapp_monthly_view.png?nolink&}}||[[:calendar_cloudapp|]] \\  **Would you like to access your Control calendars on your phone, iPad, or other Internet-connected device? ** \\ Is the access to Control calendars remotely keeping you from utilizing the power of integrated contact management? \\  **Ideal for Sales Teams to keep up with appointments while out of the office. ** \\ Remotely view and add activities (calls, meetings, To- Do’s, etc) to both personal and shared calendars. \\ **Create calendars for install and service crews to remotely access details like contact information and location. ** \\ calendar_cloudapp is the first of many CloudApps to be released by Cyrious that make your data accessible from the Cloud using the [[:cyrious_cloud_connector|]], which was also release with Control 5.7. \\  **Use of the calendar_cloudapp is free for customers on a current support contract. ||| > \\  > \\  {{:create_derived_product_popup.png?nolink&}} || [[:derived_product_overview|]] ** \\ Have you ever found yourself creating multiple products just to change the default values? \\ **Wish you could save the settings from a line item for future use? ** \\ Derived Products adds the ability to create a new product with overrides for specific values, while keeping most of the configuration from a base product. \\ **Variable and Modifier values are overridable, as well as properties like the Pricing Form or Income Account ** \\ Derived Products requires a new version of CHAPI. It is NOT backwards compatible with 5.6.||
|   ||[[:what_is_smart_parts|Smart Parts]] \\  **Do you have products that use tens, hundreds, or thousands of potential parts? ** \\ Would it be convenient to quickly search through your parts using keywords and phrases to add them to orders? \\  **Smart Parts adds three new Variable types and four new Pricing Form Components to view existing Parts and allow Parts to be easily added during order entry. ** \\ Combined with Batch Names, the Smart Parts system makes customization of an order faster than ever.||
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**Accounting**

   - #303880 - Add new option to lock general ledger form changes Before the last daily close out (11314)

**Activity Manager**

  - #285757 - Add Sub Type column to Activity Manager List view (10321)

**Purchase Orders, Receiving Documents, Bills**

  - Purchase Order Instrument - Add sub-explorer of Order/Estimate/Service Ticket (11313)

**Reports**

  - Add a "Reset settings to System default" button to the Options tab in Reporting Setup (11286)

**Security**

  - Explore Bill Items is now tied to the Explore Bills Security right (11379)

**WebView**

  - Numerous visual changes to improve the overall UI

**Miscellaneous**

  - #301159 - Add master payment JournalID to the LinkID field of additional credit payments (11284)

====   Defect    Fixes   ====

**Accounting**

  - #303531 - Negative Make Deposit entry missing when voiding a Payment that was deposited (11294)

**Company & Contacts**

  - #297028 - Company Billing address is not being saved properly (10804)

**Dashboards**

  - Quick Lookup Instrument does not enforce security rights (11229)

**Orders, Estimates, & Service Tickets**

  - #303593 - Multiple users are allowed to open the same activity (303593)
  - #301886 - Removed items not being removed from TransPart table (11296)

**Part Usage**

  - #304146 - Part usage cost is not carrying over cost when labor is added to the order via the time clock (11376)

**Products, Parts, Pricing**

  - #303609 - Pricing Form Container not ignoring invisible panels (11353)
  - Child item variable properties aren't always being calculated when parent item is being calculated (11352)
  - #303774 - The properties on CC_SaveTrigger for sons variable are not saving (11359)

**Reports**

  - #304649 - Long Tag Lines getting cut off on Standard Invoice

**Miscellaneous**

  - Caching - Some UDFs not saving when updating to a new version (11264)

Current CHAPI Release

10/30/2015 - Not compatible with Control before version 5.7

Current Production Terminal Release

06/25/2015

Backwards Compatibility

[[:derived_product_support_breaking_changes|Derived Product Support Breaking Changes]]

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