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Friday, September 16, 2016

Version 4.1 (Titan) Release Notes

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Activities

  • In case activities, events now include a When component for easier viewing of date and time that the event takes place

Books

  • More accurate display of Invoices at a Glance graph

Case Files

  • Improved behavior when removing statutes from injuries and incidents
  • Immigration
    • Repeatedly clicking the disabled Delete Form button no longer causes server errors

Case Ledgers

  • Editing a ledger entry that was previously saved with no hours no longer sets the hours to the minumum value (.1 or .6, depending on firm preference)

Contacts

  • No longer able to remove the primary party from a case using the contact's Cases list

Documents

  • Documents tagged with an activity tag that triggers a workflow no longer lose that tag when subsequently saved using the Save to Merus button

Invoices

  • Improved clarity of invoicing/billing dates by displaying both Invoice Date and Invoice Period (From and To) on PDF invoices
    • Additional preference: Margin above 'Invoice Date' Table, for placement of the new dates information
  • Open as PDF button in Open/Paid Invoices now includes an option to download the selected invoices as a zipped file of individual invoices rather than a single PDF of all invoices
  • Removed ability to delete invoices that have been marked Delivered (have a Delivered Date set)
    • Clearing the Delivered Date will allow the invoice to be deleted
  • Bill To and Attn are now displayed in the invoice's view
  • When deleting an invoice, any applied discounts are now properly deleted as well
  • Improved experience during Allocation Mode (applying receivables across individual invoiced ledger entries)

Messages

  • Better display of accents and other special characters when viewing messages from Meruscase in other email programs
  • When linking messages to a case as a batch, including the Sender information in the genrated activity description is now an option
  • Sending the PDF version of an MSWord document no longer attaches the file using a random file name

Parties

  • Display of party group order in Parties view now matches the order set in the Party Group Order preference

Reports

  • More accurate output in Case Access History report
  • Better handling of dates when running the A/R Payments Received report
  • New cash flow reports
    • Cash Flow by Billing Contact (Payor)
    • Cash Flow by User
    • Cash Flow by Attorney Responsible

Time Tracking

  • Corrected tab order in time tracking widget

Workflows

  • Events created by a workflow can now have a Start Time and Duration set

Miscellaneous

  • Increased auditing
  • Numbers in Excel exports are now treated as numbers by Excel rather than text
  • PDF and MSWord document icons are no longer the same color

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Posted by David Glass on Friday September 16, 2016 2 Comments

Labels: Releases

Friday, August 19, 2016

Version 4.0.9 (Saturn) Release Notes

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Activities

  • Workflows no longer fire if the activity is auto-saved multiple times

Books

  • Downloading export files using the notification link now works
  • Zero-dollar invoices can now be manually marked paid
  • Trust/Client Accounting is available again
    • Record Deposits, Payments, and Disbursements

Calendar

  • Better behavior of events set to repeat monthly close to the end of the month

Case Files

  • Cases created using the EAMS Importer now have the venue set correctly
  • Personal Injury - Motor Vehicle Accident
    • Vehicle assignment and position of witnesses now save properly
  • Personal Injury 
    • Better behavior at narrow display widths

Case Ledgers

  • New ledger typeExpense - Item, for recording expenses that have quantity and unit cost components, i.e. Copies or Mileage

Contacts

  • No longer able to remove the primary party from a case
  • Improved display of contact information in search results following an update of the contact
  • Search on iOS now searches on more than the first character entered
  • Email addresses can now be copied and pasted into new messages
  • Better behavior of Print & Export menu when Help panel is open

Events

  • Follow-up Events now receive the assignees of the original event

Invoices

  • Additional layout options for PDF invoices to improve compatibility with window envelopes
    • Display 'Bill To' and 'Payment Information' on First Page Only
      • Default is to display this information at the top of every page
    • Do Not Include the 'Bill To' Label
    • Margin above 'Bill To'
      • Set a distance from the top of the page where the Bill To information will begin
    • Margin above Line Items Table
      • Set a distance from the top of the page where the line items will start
    • Margin above 'Reference/Memo' 
      • Set a distance between the Reference/Memo field and the Bill To information
  • New preferences for Top, Left, and Right margins
    • Available options: .25", .33" (current setting), .5", .75", and 1.0"
  • Additional preferences for showing labels for the information in the Reference/Memo field
  • Options for including/excluding case-specific information in the Reference/Memo field
    • Case Name
    • Claim Number(s) (Workers' Compensation cases only)
    • Date(s) of Injury (Workers' Compensation cases only)
  • Time Tracking and Expense entries are now separated into Services and Expenses sections
  • LEDES export formats now include the item quantity and unit cost for expenses
  • Detaching ledger entries is now included in the audit history of the ledger entry
  • Better behavior when filtering for unset values (N/A) in Last Invoiced or Cycle
  • Improved display of Create Invoices list at large display sizes
  • Sorting and filtering on Next Invoice is now possible

Messages

  • Attachments are now available to recipients who are not MerusCase users, but retrieve the message using MerusCase

Parties

  • Improved display of party groups following the replacement of in-use party groups

Reports

  • Upcoming Birthdays is available again

Workflows

  • Workflows updated more accurately following the replacement of the assigned activity tag
  • Display of updated information when viewing a workflow has been improved

Miscellaneous

  • Immigration Template Creator now has the MerusCase tab
  • Help Menu no longer obscures navigation tabs in portrait mode on iOS
  • Better display of tabs at narrow display widths
  • Improved behavior of search fields on iOS
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Posted by David Glass on Friday August 19, 2016 3 Comments

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