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While helping one of our major clients with a stocktake, we noticed that there was a small issue with our system. Amicus supports components, which means that if you change the stock level of one item in the component structure, the others get affected. For example, if we have the products BEER and CARTON, a CARTON consists of 24 BEERs.

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As we start preparing 6.02 for release to our largest client, we are still pressing on with 6.04. There were some major changes made in this version, so we will need to go through some thorough testing. To help aid us in this, we have hired some new testers.

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There have been several things happening this week. But the one that is most interesting to talk about (at least from a development point of view) is speeding up the SQL for the stocktake variance report.

One of our major clients has been mentioning that this report is running quite slow. This seemed strange as work had been done before to speed up this report. It should be quick to run.

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I hope everyone had a merry Christmas and a happy new year. I had a good break, and am now settling back into work for 2011. It’s amazing how easy you get used to slowly waking up later day-by-day, only to bring it all back when you start work again…

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Testing and bug fixing were put on the sideline for a portion of this week. One of our major clients is having issues with stocktakes. The main problem is trying to figure out why the variance in the stocktake is so large.

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Testing and bug fixing continued last week. It would be nice to finish the list and put this release to bed, but sadly, issues (and last minute enhancements) keep coming up and delaying the release cycle. Quite a lot of bugs got fixed last week. But two small but important features were added.

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As with last week, we are still fixing issues. A few extra suggestions were made during the rollout to one of our major clients. Since we are aiming to make them happy (and the suggestions are good), we have decided to use them.

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For the last two weeks we have been in the middle of testing and fixing 6.02. The original wave of testing brought up quite a few issues (go team!). Now we are in the middle of fixing them.

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As mentioned in previous blogs, we are slowly making Amicus support multiple languages. A large portion of this is now done. We have decided to start translating Amicus into Chinese. There are several reasons for doing this.

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This week, we have been preparing for the next release of 6.02. One of our important customers requires a bit more functionality with deli scale labels. So as a result, we have been putting these enhancements into this next version.

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