The Sicon Hire Manager is designed specifically as an additional module for Sage 200. Fully integrated with the Sicon Fixed Assets (included with hire manager), Sage 200 Stock and Order Processing modules. Designed to manage the requirements of hire organisation’s needing to create hire documentation, schedule people and equipment, control pricing and generate one off or periodic invoices for the items on hire.
Pre-Release Version: features are only available to customers using a pre-release version who have signed up to the Early Adopter Programme.
Change required as Fixed Asset maintenance no longer includes the ‘assetList’ control, which resulted in an error when screen opened.
Date applied: November 15, 2019
Pre-Release Version: features are only available to customers using a pre-release version who have signed up to the Early Adopter Programme.
Changes required for ‘Issue to Fixed Assets’ integration with Contracts module v19.2 (no functional changes, background only).
Date applied: November 11, 2019
Pre-Release Version: features are only available to customers using a pre-release version who have signed up to the Early Adopter Programme.
The Convert Quote screen now allows selection of multiple quotes using check-boxes and select/unselect all buttons. A ‘view’ button has also been added. When Convert Quote is run from the desktop list the screen is also briefly displayed behind the confirmation message.
SOP amend/view main screen ‘Hire’ tab added to show related hire order details.
New ‘On Hire’ quantity column added to hire order line maintenance/view asset ‘quantity’ tab.
New asset sub-category mandatory inspection required configuration option added. When this option is selected (or Hire is configured to require inspection of all assets) the user cannot clear the inspection required tick-box when confirming receipts.
Fixed Assets desktop list fields have now been added to the Asset Hire Register list of selectable fields (i.e. NetBookValue, LastDepreciationDate, AccumulatedDepreciation, (Asset) Description, HoldUntilDate, CostValue, LastDepreciationValue, DepreciationDescription, ResidualValue, ExpectedLife, WhenToDepreciate, DepreciationRate, DateOfPurchase, CapitalisationDate, AddressDescription, AddressLine1, AddressLine2, AddressLine3, AddressLine4, PostCode, EmployeeName, Model, Manufacturer and Disposed)
Tax code can no longer be set/changed for hire order asset lines and sub-category default tax codes are now mandatory. Sub category import changed to mandatory default tax code and allow ‘mandatory’ inspection required import value.
Tax code can no longer be set/changed for hire order stock item or additional charge lines and tax code for free-text charge lines is now set to customer default tax code.
Asset Register (Desktop) List now includes ‘Dispose of Fixed Asset’ action matching the Fixed Assets desktop list. However this action will only be shown/available if the user role has access to the standard fixed assets disposal feature/menu item.
New additional charge nominal account SOP/revenue override added for ‘free text’ charge items.
Comment line ‘show on customer documents’ flag added (defaulted to ‘true’) and also applied rapid entry comments to be set as a default.
Service stock item additional charges can now be configured for manual user item selection during hire order entry/amendment.
Document report file/layout names are now configurable settings screen reports tab.
Issue To Fixed Assets now automatically generates a report when a report file is configured in the Hire Settings ‘reports’ tab. This requires the latest pre-release version of Fixed Assets.
Configuration settings changed to cached using Sicon.API.Sage200.Objects.Common.Settings.ProductSettings.
Software dependancies: Fixed Assets v191.1.0 or later, Common Components Assets v191.1.0 or later
Date applied: July 24, 2019
Fix Confirm Despatch hire order stock item not being allocated/despatched due to unconfirmed stock not being taken into account when checking free stock.
Date applied: September 17, 2020
Rapid Hire Quote maintenance fix to disable rapid drop-down control when no item is currently set. This is to stop data loss if user accidentally switches between different line types when no specific hire asset is selected for the quote line.
Date applied: February 4, 2020
Fix asset/item billed up-to date corruption if several billed periods are un-linked in ascending chronological order.
Date applied: January 28, 2020
Reduce database access when reading customer exclude bank holiday indicators, hire order invoiced/remaining values, etc.
Date applied: January 2, 2020
When excluding bank holidays and billing by week, check exclude weekends indicator to calculate duration based on either 5 or 7 day weeks.
Date applied: December 16, 2019
Sales order generation will no longer attempt to create sales order charge lines for hire bill/forecast lines when the additional charge has since been deleted.
Date applied: November 29, 2019
Hire order maintenance ‘stock item’ & ‘additional charges’ tabs now focus for quantity/value controls of the first line in the grid.
When checking for appointment conflicts (including when ‘undefined period’ un-ticked) ignore any appointments linked to complete/cancelled hire orders.
Date applied: November 13, 2019
Generate sales orders now automatically despatches any miscellaneous/service stock items added to the sales order, including flagging as SOP acknowledgement printed.
Exclude hire despatches/receipts for deleted asset lines from Hire History (SiconHMAssetHistoryView) and Asset Hire Details screen ‘Check’ button process.
Date applied: October 15, 2019
Hire Quote report now shows correct requested to date and includes any comment lines entered for the quote.
Swap asset function now updates hire status for swapped in/out assets.
Date applied: September 27, 2019
When hire order dates, units, etc. are changed only recalculate hire unit price from Price Book if a value exists in the price book for the category/asset, else retain existing price.
Hire order maintenance will now re-calculate duration if selling unit is changed as rounding rules may be different for new selling unit.
Copy hire quote/order now increases charge dates for stock and additional charge lines based on copied order date.
Hire Revenue report now includes FOC hire orders provided they are posted to the sales ledger. In these cases the period number is calculated based in the posting date, as no nominal transactions will exist for accounting period calculation.
Date applied: September 20, 2019
Partially applied to v191.0.5.
Fix conflict check when ‘undefined’ hire period is selected. Now only shows conflicts for hire appointments from/after the requested from date of hire order being maintained.
Date applied: August 30, 2019
Fix ‘SiBespoke entry 4.0000000′ is not a valid integer’ error following Common Components upgrade to.
Add validation to Confirm Despatch ‘Amend Selected Asset’ button to stop ‘object reference not set ..’ errors if clicked with no asset selected.
Date applied: August 22, 2019
During initial system configuration default ‘Automatically print invoices during sales order generation’ setting OFF.
If asset(s) are added to a hire order line using the ‘Add Assets’ button default hire unit price is now set based on hire price bands.
Fix ‘Index was out of range’ error during forecast generation when attempting to update ‘final charge for asset’ flags when no bills have been created.
When a hire order line is changed to ‘undefined’ hire period, check for assets allocated to later hire orders now excludes ‘batch’ quantity assets.
When a sales order is un-linked from a hire order reset billed up-to, previously invoiced up-to dates and any stock item lines invoiced quantities to allow items to appear on re-generated forecasts.
Appointment conflict warnings will no longer be shown if assets are received and despatched on different hire orders on the same date.
Date applied: August 21, 2019
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Fix for object reference error when generating forecasts, occurred on a hire order after generating sales orders for the hire order.
Post Invoices & credits unexpected exception ‘Method not found: Sage.Accounting.SOP.SOPInvoiceCredit Sage.Accounting.SOP.SOPPostInvoiceCreditItem.get_InvoiceCredit()’ error fixed. This was caused by removal of the SOPPostInvoiceCreditItem.InvoiceCredit.Lines object from SDK in Sage 200c 2018 Summer Enhancements.
Date applied: August 1, 2019
Minimum charge moved to the final forecast/bill for an asset line, to resolve issues when system attempts to split the minimum charge over month-end.
Date applied: July 19, 2019
Pre-Release Version: features are only available to customers using a pre-release version who have signed up to the Early Adopter Programme.
Move/Rename ‘Copy Fixed Asset’ function to Hire, Adjustments features/menu and rename ‘Copy Hire Asset’. This function now clears copied asset hire status/disposed fields and shows asset maintenance before prompting the user to generate forecasts, provided depreciation type is not ‘none’.
If stock item configured to ‘Use item description on orders and invoices’ add to hire sales orders using the item description.
Hire Order Lines desktop list new includes delivery/collection dates, customer code, document status name and custom sub status.
Desktop list analysis code column captions are now set based on configures names and all 20 hire order/quote analysis code columns may be added
New ‘History’ tab added to hire order line maintenance screen.
Extend fixed asset ‘Hire History’ list to include additional hire order specific fields.
Add stock location (warehouse) to Hire Movements screen selection criteria.
Add Generate Sales Order And Returns hire order analysis code selection criteria (new button).
Generate Sales Orders and Returns will now add specific (despatched) asset codes to sales order line descriptions if the Sales Order Generation configuration setting ‘Add hire asset codes to generated sales order line description’ is selected.
Hire Asset Conditions for fixed assets added and Asset Schedule now highlights assets with non-‘Normal’ asset conditions.
Asset Schedule ‘exclude undefined hire periods’ box/option added and show ‘free of charge’ hires in configurable colour (see Settings, Appointment Labels maintenance).
Asset schedule ‘number of assets per page’ configuration setting added and allow user to edit previously added manual appointments when double-licked on the schedule list.
Hire configuration setting ‘IsAddFACodeToSOPLineDescription’ added, which will automatically add asset codes to the end of generated sales order line descriptions (i.e. ‘Asset: xxxxxx’).
Add ‘View Previous Inspection’ button to Quick Inspection screen.
View Asset Appointments now includes non-hire appointments, such as ‘Contracts’ or ‘Other’.
Complete Hire Orders now writes to Hire History and is available as a link from Hire Orders (desktop) list.
Apply appointment label colours to Schedule for Existing Hire Orders screen.
Add confirmation message to Settings screen Generate Forecasts button.
Full/rapid hire order entry/amend change to not allow order line maintenance until a customer is selected.
Assets on Asset Line screen Off Hire date now corrected, was previously attempting to adjust based on time resulting in date after being show.
Confirm Receipt and Off Hire screens default date fixed, now takes into account BST +1hr adjustment.
Confirm Receipt screen outstanding quantity fix for old data with no QuantityReceived value stored. SQL script fix to set SiconHMOrderLineAssetsLineItem.QuantityReceived values for items received before this field was added.
Stop View Order line screen prompting to save changes.
When a fixed asset is sold or disposed (via Fixed Asset function) ensure the hire status to ‘off hire’.
Asset Utilisation ‘Available’ days is now based on earliest/first asset available for hire date and ‘View Asset Appointments’ button added so user can drill-down.
Fix confirm despatch ‘object reference not set …’ if a stock item (non-asset) line is ticked/un-ticked + set hire order status to complete if fully billed and order is for only despatched stock items.
Fix Suggested Fulfilments ‘object reference not set …’ error on category/sub-category selection/clear, item is no longer added if empty grid is clicked and show error message if no warehouses selected.
Remove Settings, Utilities menu (unless F8) and move data utilities to upgrade instrument / ‘Generate Forecasts’ button. Add ‘Verifying SiconHMOrderLineAssetsLine.QuantityReceived values …’ process to database upgrade instrument, add percentages and correct ‘concatenated’ typo.
Contract equipment appointment add/update/delete moved to contract save event to ensure appointments are updated when dates change and fix ‘object reference not set ..’ error when Equipment on Contract Line form was closed.
Rebuild data model to include SiconHMAssetHistoryView, SiconHMAssetQuantityView, SiconHMCAddresss, SiconHMIncorrectReceivedItem & SiconHMSubCategoryBalancesSubView and new fields on existing tables (e.g. SiconHMOrderLineAssetsLineItem.Quantity), v20.0.18093.1
Fix POP Record Purchase Invoice ‘Warning: 1 transaction(s) were processed which are not related to a job’ error when a hire related cross hire / fulfilment purchase order is processed.
Generate sales orders and returns no longer reports ‘No Job has been set on the hire order. Please select a job for hire order …’ error if no job is linked to a hire order. Instead the default job costing job will be set (or no job will be linked).
When an asset line is added using the hire full/rapid maintenance screens the ‘exclude weekends’ indicator is automatically set based on hire order / system setting default value.
If hire order full/rapid entry is not saved delete any temporary (‘TBA’) hire order records saved up-to that point & exclude all ‘TBA’ orders from desktop, screen and hire order drop-down lists.
Rapid entry/amend item drop-down now excludes disposed assets & inactive stock item.
Move hire order entry/amend customer credit check from order save to customer selection + correct Settings screen ‘Customer credit limit check’ tooltip.
Fix Confirm Despatch ‘Object reference is not set …’ error when view attachments is configured and no attachments are setup for the despatched items.
Suggested fulfilment now checks if temporary asset codes already exist to stop duplicates due to data issues or manual entry and show ‘Last temporary cross hire suffix’ on Settings screen Fixed Assets tab.
Asset Utilisation enquiry now calculates available/on-hire days based on system ‘exclude weekends’ configuration setting plus minor utilisation screen fixes.
Quick Inspection ‘Select All’ button now prompts user to set available for hire and selects all listed assets and ‘Unselect All’ button added.
Sales Of Assets now only prompts user once to confirm ‘Selling prices have not been entered for all assets. Do you wish to exclude zero price assets from sale?’.
Copy Hire Asset now writes the new asset code into equipment ‘IDNumber’ field, for use during equipment lookup/search.
Fix hire order entry bug causing asset lines not to be saved when adding a new order line.
Exclude removed/deleted sub categories from drop-down list (when category filter is not applied).
Remove obsolete Asset Schedule ‘Sort by current customer (at schedule date)’ tick-box.
Hire order/quote view/enquiry will no longer prompt user to save.
Desktop lists ‘Sage – Unexpected Exception’ / ‘Index was out of range’ error fixed (only appeared at new installs / no hire analysis codes configured).
View hire order/quote screen now allows attachments to be viewed, added, etc.
Performance improvements when hire order entry/amendment screens (including rapid) are first opened.
Return Asset To Supplier screen select/unselect all buttons switched.
Fixed asset maintenance hire status check button now ignores assets last returned to a supplier.
Generate sales orders no longer sets SOPConfirmationIntentEnum.NoConfirmation for non-stock items as this causes error ‘You cannot change the confirmation intent type. The specified stock item is of type ‘Stock’ or ‘Miscellaneous’ when generating sales orders which contain miscellaneous stock items.
Hire order maintenance ‘repeat on day’ validation added to only allow entries between 0 and 28; higher entries do not allow invoices to be generated each month.
When entering a new hire order (including rapid) ensure any configured Default Deposit Percentage is set.
Fix forecast generation sales return/credit value calculation issue when a credit is generated for an additional charge.
Stop forecast generation if default selling unit is ‘fixed’ but no billing date is selected or default selling unit is NOT ‘fixed’ and one or more assets is set to ‘fixed’ selling unit.
Clear fixed billing date if check box is un-ticked in hire order maintenance billing forecast/planned sales orders tab.
Automatic configuration (database upgrade) process added to generate any missing SiconEquipment records or update any NULL SiconEquipment.IDNumber fields.
Date applied: July 1, 2019