Eric
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Well it has been a while coming, as I spent much of July dealing with the addition of a new member of the family (a daughter born on July 1st). However, at last, here is a fresh wave of features, a number of them often requested over the past year:
IMPROVED CONSUMPTION TRACKING & REPORTING
- Now when consuming a bottle you can also track if you received any money in return (e.g. returning a bottle to a vendor, selling a bottle at auction etc.). You can also now enter a short private note (255 characters) in association with that consumed bottle.
- Regular and grouped Consumption reports now support an identical set of filtering parameters, so repetitive grouping and drilldown always shows the expected results. New filter parameters include MasterVarietal as well as reviewer and rating.
- Advanced search now allows exact match or wildcard search of the new consumption notes. TODO: this could/should probably be better exposed in the future, as it is a powerful yet rather buried feature.
- Consumption reports now let you separately display the cost and value of consumption. For grouped reports you can also see averages as well as totals.
FIT AND FINISH/SIMPLIFIED UI
- I greatly cleaned up and simplified the screen for adding a new purchase so that related fields are displayed in a logical order. Also, relevant controls (such as for the Bin/Location) are only displayed when necessary (e.g. not when adding futures). Also, the choice for purchasing and immediately consuming now also allows you to choose the consumption type, add a consumption note, and track consumption revenue.
- I significantly revamped the 'drinking' UI so that the different consumption types are much more visible, so you can record a consumption note and revenue, and so that you can write a tasting note directly in place when you mark a bottle as consumed. This screen also now shows label images.
- The Quick Search box at the upper left now dynamically hides the "Only show mine" choice for a number of the views where this made no sense (User listing, external site search, and Producer listing.
MISCELLANEOUS/BUG FIXES
- Purchase pivots by order number would become jumbled. Fixed.
- Updated handling of Grand Cru Chablis now shows "Chablis Grand Cru".
- A corner case display glitch. Grand Cru designated Burgundy with other appended text (Grand Cru Vieilles Vignes) and blank Vineyards (sort of an invalid case anyway) would show doubled text for the appended text. Fixed.
- The OrderNumber field for purchases used to be limited to 20 characters. I have made it now support 255 characters in sync with the new consumption note.
- When viewing a restaurant wine list as a grouped summary, a blank menu price would cause an error. Fixed.
- The comprehensive restaurant menu-pricing screen now supports filtering and the advanced filter UI.
- The wine summary and inventory web queries now shows proportional values based on 750ml value for non-750ml bottles (just as the rest of the site already did).
- On the inventory editing screen, pressing ENTER with the default focus now Updates inventory instead of launching the label printing screen. Also, you can no longer launch the label printing screen unless you have at least one bottle selected.
- The user interface for publishing tasting note to various wine bulletin boards has been simplified including new top-level options to add/remove CellarTracker attribution and/or to include hyperlinks back to the wine drilldown pages on CellarTracker.
- Some antivirus and pop-up blockers were breaking the label printing UI. This screen now shows a button by default that fixes this along with a notice that your AV software may be stopping automatic printing (and requiring one more button click).
- The individual bottle view now exposes user-interface for bulk consumption. (So for example if you are bringing a series of bottles to a tasting, some of which might not be opened, you could update their location in advance, revisit the list of bottles in this location later, mark some as consumed, and rerack others and restore the original location).
Well that's all for now. There are a number of new things for folks to chew on here, so let me know if you see any quirks.
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Cheers!
-Eric LeVine
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