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.
Asset Register ‘Check’ button changes to recognise other asset movement transactions & fix intermittent ‘HistoryTransactionTypeID not recognised’ error.
Create missing primary keys on Hire database tables.
Date applied: September 30, 2022
Fix Sell Assets ‘Execution Timeout Expired’ error caused by record locks when attempting to dispose fixed assets.
View Hire Asset Details screen ‘Check’ button is now enabled to allow user to check/correct hire status.
Date applied: September 15, 2022
Fix Service Desk Equipment List showing incorrect hire orders for switch/replacements & allow user to receive against the replacement hire order line.
Fixed a problem on the forecast tab of a hire order line where the last generation date was moving back a day, thus regenerating the last day in a new forecast line.
Service Desk Equipment list fix to include despatched/received asset hire history by transaction date.
Service Desk Equipment list ‘Hire’ button is now enabled after a new case is saved + tidy-up messages, etc.
Service Desk Equipment list will now link to allocated/scheduled cases (using history date/time) so equipment can be despatched.
Equipment list now allows user to select ‘Advanced Replacement’ option on Hire button if current order/line linked to the equipment is an advanced replacement.
Date applied: September 9, 2022
Fixed ‘Failed to update objects’ error when saving a hire order and the user accidently clicked in the collection notes grid to auto create a row.
Date applied: August 19, 2022
New ‘Split Hire Orders’ function added to the Utilities menu.
Add new Hire setting to enable/disable delivery address locations by hire order line.
Add new Hire Setting to sort fixed asset drop-down selection lists by serial number.
Hire Transfers now sets asset starts to ‘Hire Transfer’ when despatched and ‘Available To Hire’ when received. Asset history records are now also generated.
Deposit and Balance generation fixes relates to sales order line description not being passed.
Date applied: August 5, 2022
Fix equipment customer/equipment not being reset/cleared when a source advanced replacement asset is received-back, due to the transaction date on the AR history being set to the date/time the asset was despatched instead of the user selected despatch date, Case 22287
Source/original advanced replacement item no longer changes to status ‘Available to Hire’ when AR is despatched, will now remain ‘on hire’ until receipt, Case 22549
Add WITH (NOLOCK) to all SQL views
Date applied: July 18, 2022
Fixed icons
Date applied: July 8, 2022
Sales order generation will no longer include and original/source advanced replacement assets that are due to be returned between the bill start date and invoice/generation date.
If off-hiring specific assets write asset history for each asset and set off-hire date without waiting for receive back.
Date applied: June 27, 2022
Display warning messages if adding a new hire order line with a requested from or delivery date in the past.
Set new hire order line from/delivery dates to current date if delivery date is not set on hire order header.
Hire order maintenance now refreshes order lines following ‘Remove’.
Date applied: June 15, 2022
Default ‘Hide time selection’ Setting to ON.
Change Hire Order Prices now allows decrease & increase/decrease percentage up-to five decimal places.
Add asset ‘Found’ button to Fixed Asset maintenance Hire tab.
Equipment List hire order number will now show current hire order/line or hire status if currently not ‘on hire’.
Despatch ‘Include assets currently on-hire’ check-box added to hide ‘on-hire’ assets as a default.
Fix ‘Could not load file or assembly ‘Sage.Reporting.Engine.Integration, Version=4.0.0.0 …’ error
Suppress hire order line/sequence number when generating reports/documents.
Changed the order lines list on the hire details to use paging and added a paging totals control (performance/memory improvement).
Fix ‘Cannot set the value of the Field (.WorkReportOverridePath) to …’ when Settings screen opens if any case type report path/name exceeds 64 characters.
Receive asset no longer updates equipment customer/delivery address if asset history transactions exist after the receipt date.
Case Details / Service Desk hire order, despatch/receipt and swap columns are now populated using new SQL view to improve performance. The screen also only refresh when Equipment tab is visible and displays fixed asset code in Receive confirmation message.
Resolved an issue with the SiconHMAssetHireRegisterView where it did not have a primary key and was affecting the asset register list.
Fix Service Desk ‘Specified cast is not valid’ after a new item is added to the Equipment tab + force Hire column refresh when Equipment tab is selected.
Fix off-hire dates showing previous day if they include time of day.
Fix problem with error on issue stock to fixed assets screen and contracts is not installed.
Off hire Mandatory Before Receive no longer requires user to select specific assets when off hiring & instead only allow receipt up to the off hired quantity.
Replace ‘This order has items that have not been off-hired. You might need to off-hire them before you are able to receive them.’ message with on-screen message text.
Equipment despatch/receipt now deals with multiple equipment records for the same fixed asset + write asset history message if equipment not updated.
Clear any linked delivery/collection cases on Copy Hire Order.
Date applied: May 27, 2022
Improve Service Desk performance when reading advanced replacement equipment despatch/receipt hire status.
Date applied: March 31, 2022
Fix Case Details not displaying hire order/line is Equipment list columns + show (disabled) Hire button ‘Advanced Replacement’ option if an existing A/R line already exists for the asset & line.
Fix copy hire order ‘There is not enough stock available for all hire order lines.’ error.
Asset hire status check now excludes despatches on cancelled hire orders.
Fix Service Case Hire button error ‘”Unable to update the object (Sicon.Sage200.HireManager.Objects.SiconHMOrderLineAssetsLine …’ if the selected equipment was previously an Advanced Replacement on a hire order/asset line that has since been deleted.
Date applied: March 10, 2022
Generate forecasts utility fix to stop looping if selecting only hire order lines with no existing forecasts.
Date applied: March 4, 2022
Add Hire columns to Service View Case Details screen.
Fix ‘This equipment/asset is not linked to hire order xxxxx-x’ error when adding an advanced replacement from the case equipment list.
Update/reset equipment customer, delivery address, hire order details and asset hire status as advanced replacement swap assets are despatched
Fix asset hire status check not recognising swaps as despatch/receipt
Fix equipment despatch/receipt & swap original/replacement column not being set correctly.
Date applied: February 25, 2022
Reinstate ‘Complete Hire Order’ screen and desktop list button.
Hire Asset Register / Asset Hire Details screen Hire History list/grid now includes hire order line/sequence number.
Sales Order Generation will now generate a separate sales return if ‘returned early credits’ value exceeds the net sales order/billing value and reset credits if sales return is cancelled.
Add new setting ‘Only bill assets on-site during billing period’ which dynamically bills individual on-site assets based on despatched/received dates.
Hire Order Maintenance fix for position of ‘hide advanced replacement lines’ tick-box position and add wait mouse cursor while refreshing.
Ignore Hire Order locks when despatching from the Service Case Details screen.
Fix Service Case maintenance ‘Execution Timeout Expired’ errors.
Fix suspension maintenance ‘Suspension to date cannot be earlier than from date’ error.
Fix hire order maintenance ‘Hide Advanced Replacement Lines’ toggle.
Fix for ‘The operation is not valid for the state of the transaction.’ error when hire orders status is updated due to allocation, etc.
Fix case ID 0 not found error when attempting to add equipment to a Service case.
Copy Hire Order commitment control change to fix ‘Timeout’ error in SetHireOrderStatus.
Export report to PDF error ‘No data was returned for this Report.’ fixed by excluding any report criteria with NULL values.
Hire duration description was using the exclude weekends flag on the hire order header incorrectly, when it should have been using the exclude weekends flag on the asset line. Therefore the duration description was showing incorrectly when excluding weekends was not selected.
Date applied: February 17, 2022
Hire Order maintenance ‘Hide Advanced Replacement Lines’ tick-box alignment fix.
Show hire order billing complete flag (read-only) on hire order maintenance Billing Forecast / Planned Sales Orders tabs
View Hire Order line screen no longer applies locking or re-creates forecasts.
View (Sales) Order screen now populates Hire tab details even when opened from desktop list.
When cancelling a sales order generated from hire roll-back/reset the hire order line last generation dates.
Hire Status Check now sets asset ‘available for hire’ if previously despatched on a cancelled/completed hire order and shows hire order status in confirmation message.
Fix quote line save ‘Object reference is not set …’ error due to quote attempting to create forecasts.
Date applied: January 14, 2022
Hire Order maintenance Unlink Sales Order button now also clears bill IsBillProcessed flag so forecaat generation doesn’t retain ‘N/A’ line.
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Change Hire Order Prices screen now includes new filters by hire order/line number and include/exclude zero prices and performance/memory usage improvements when updating prices.
Fix Hire Order entry ‘Cannot update Field (SiconHMOrderLineStockLineDbKey) with a Null value …’ error on save + Fix ‘Object reference is not set …’ error if saving a hire order with no only stock items added to an order line.
Set zero value (FOC) hire orders as ‘complete’ once all bills have been processed through sales order generation.
Generate Sales Orders ‘Unable to find specified nominal code’ error will now include a description of the issue and the stock item code to help identify the problem.
Fix service case Advanced Replacement warning message showing the incorrect hire order/line if the selected asset has been on multiple hire order.
Date applied: December 23, 2021
Date applied: December 17, 2021
Date applied: December 10, 2021
Date applied: November 26, 2021
Date applied: November 15, 2021