Actinic 8.0

[MySweeper]

Hello everyone!
Whatever happen to the release of version 8?
There is usually a new version once a year and the deadline has long passed.
Anyone have any info?
New versions are always exciting!

[jont]

Feb / March 2006 I hear on the grapevine

[Bob Isaac]

S-l-o-w down let's get a good working 7.x before rushing off to a new version that may have a host of new bugs and problems.

Bob

[jont]

a host of new bugs and problems.

Isn't that half the fun of upgrading

[TraceyHand]

Isn't that half the fun of upgrading

Hasn't been much fun here over the last week or 2!!
I'm left using a copy of 7.0.5 with more bugs in it that the one main bug I upgraded from 7.0.4 to overcome!

[MySweeper]

I guess the U.S. bugs are less frequent but all the more a pain in the A**.
This must be a good thing because we still have 7.0.3.

[Bob Isaac]

Beta testing is not as thorough as it used to be. Just look at the Adobe and Macromedia support forums. I think one of the problems is that all these programmes have got so complex, and run on such a variety of server configurations, that the only way to really test is to release it to the world and fix things as they appear.

Bob

[jont]

Software has to be one of the very few products which is allowed to be shipped with bugs and faults where the consumer is happy to go along with the process of updating, patching and modifying the product to make it work as it says on the box. Anything else would be taken straight back to the supplier.

To be fair to the majority of software suppliers they do a cracking job in making their products work on an infinitely wide range of computers as they can - different specs, components, operating systems etc. I agree with Bob in that some programs are rushed through to meet a Christmas deadline or that of a competitor and they are happy to let the issues arise in the real world and continue developing the product thereafter in the form of patches.

Back to the OP I personally would rather wait an extra 6 months or whatever for the new v8 release allowing more time for bugs to be ironed out and not have my sites broken due to an upgrade

[NormanRouxel]

Actinic runs in a huge number of system and configuration combinations. Here are some I have to consider whenever I'm tinkering with a tweak.

Actinic -> 1
x V6 | V7 -> 2
x Business (not logged in) | Business (logged in) | Simple Catalog -> 6
x CompactHTML | Commented HTML -> 12
x Via Search Script (no Highlighting) | Via Search Script (with Highlighting) | Direct -> 36
x Framed (ugh) | Normal -> 72
x CSS Theme | Non CSS Theme -> 144
x Windows server | Linux server -> 288
x SSL | No SSL | Shared SSL -> 864

I'm sure that there are several more options that I've missed that would take the possible combinations way into the thousands!

[wesleythorne]

hi, looks like 7.04 would of been best for me but i will stick out 7.05 and keep my fingers crossed an update is along before v8. On the subject of beta testing how does one go about getting the product to test, from a selfish point of view i dont mind testing v8 to see if their are any problems with my site setup. I would rather test it first then upgrade later and hope for the best!
Regards
Wesley

[jont]

Actinic partners generally get the option to Beta test. You need to sign up (and pay) to become a partner .. check out http://www.actinic.co.uk/services/partner.htm

[Valerie]

Need v8!

Hi Guys
I really am hoping you get V8 out soon, as we had such bad compatibility probs with v7 and Quickbooks (quickbooks not recognising more than one customer ever when importing from Actinic!) Will this really be fixed in V8 as I was promised?

Our accounts lady is trying to learn Sage so she can link it with v7, but she can't work it out, it's so counter intuitive.

I really hope there's some good news from you soon, so we can link up Actinic with our accounts software, as we're currently entering the data manually, which is crazy. What does everyone else do?

Love

Val
www.detoxyourworld.com

[cdicken]

Will this really be fixed in V8 as I was promised?

Valerie - this sounds like it is a support issue rather than something that can be fixed in v8.

We are limited in how much we can integrate with QuickBooks because Intuit didn't roll out their decent API (integration tool) outside the US - but it should be working better than it is for you.

Have you worked with our support team before on this?

[Valerie]

Support

Hi

Yes, our developer asked the question here: http://community.actinic.com/showthr...ght=quickbooks

Q & A below.

I'd be really interested if this can be resolved. If QB isn't ready to be properly integrated, we can't use Sage because our accounts womand doesn't get it, and we've spent all our money on getting the shop developed in Actinic because we were under the impression it integrated with QB properly, then any workaround would be most welcomed.

Love

Val

www.detoxyourworld.com

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Hi
we've developed a site for a client using V7 and use Actinic Link for Quickbooks to convert the csv output files into an iif file - readable by quickbooks.

The problem is that this file creates only a single customer 'Internet Shopper' when quickooks imports it - whereas my client wants the file to list each order's customer as a new fully fledged customer in quickbooks.

Has anybody found a way to do this - be it with some clever tweaking of the iif file or by using a third party solution.

I just don't get how it's possible in the US and not here. They obviously have the technology!

Regards
Peter


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#2 03-Jun-2005, 04:32 PM
Nadeem
Actinic Support
Join Date: Dec 2002
Name: Nadeem Rasool
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Hi Peter,

I have not seen any third party solution on doing this. This can be achieved in Quickbook US and Sage Line 50.
If there is anyone here who knows how this can be achieved in the UK version, please feel free to comment to this thread.

Kind Regards
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[cdicken]

Oh ok.

Yes - QuickBooks UK interface only allows importing of orders, not the creation of customers. It can assign orders to an account in QuickBooks that already exists, but cannot create new ones from retail orders.

This won't change in v8 though as it is reliant on Intuit's technology, not ours. Sorry.