CustomsNow ISF Change Log

The CustomsNow ISF alpha application is equipped with a change log.  This section will record all changes made to the software, so that users are aware of any updates to the software.  Please check this change log frequently, as this application will be updated regularly throughout the testing process.

• Click on ISF Change Log to access the change log.  Please note that all changes will be recorded in this guide as well

Changes/Updates

4/29/2009

• All ISF BOLs have been reset to bill on file.

4/28/2009

• T502: Document link has been added that shows the rules involved when adding multiple BOLs.

• B531: The transmit options will be deactivated when the ISF is a template.

• B598: The partial transmission option is now clarified with additional text.

• T614: The ISF dashboard grid will now show ACCEPTED instead of on file.

• B618: You will no longer receive an error when viewing history on an ISF that has no history.

• T599: The importer name has been added to the data queries.

• B600: The tab order has been fixed on the report screens.

• T550: It is now possible to flag an ISF as deleted to eliminate them from your reports.

• T573: The BOL status will be shown on the dashboard grid as well as a dashboard button to view ISFs that do not have all of their bills on file. We are aware that CBP has not started to send back confirmations after a bill has been put on file. We will reset all previous bill statuses once this goes online (ETA mid May)

• T574: The ISF history screen now has a refresh button.

• T579: When pressing OK on a blank commodity line, consignee or container the system will automatically remove the row.

4/20/2009

• You will no longer receive an assembly error when opening an ISF without profile permissions.

• T613: HTS number has been added to the product grid.

• B610: You can now create an ISF without full profile permissions.

• T597: The profile properties button has been hidden.

• B588: Profiles, parties and products from CustomsNow ABI will now sync properly.

• T586: ISF notifications can now be stored on the profile accessed from a button on the profile editor toolbar

• T564: The Parties button is now available on the profile editor.

• T563: Duplicate BOL numbers will now be checked for prior to transmission avoiding a common reject.

• T556: Product editor layout has been streamlined

• T547: Parties can now be deleted, profiles can now be flagged as deleted.

• B535: Opening a profile with only profile reader access will now work properly.

3/30/2009

• B604: High memory usage is no longer an issue after using ISF for extended periods of time.

• B602: Click ADD ANOTHER to add another party in the ISF. Choose anything other than NAME and click OK. The PartyNum should be shown in the grid.

• T534: Many fields should auto format with the appropriate periods and dashes (when omitted, and required)

3/23/2009

• B596: When you have focus on an importer number for a new ISF and click save an error will no longer appear.

• B595: Importer # now fills in when using a template. Also the importer # doesn't overwrite with the profile's importer # when opening an existing ISF

• B581: Spaces in the address line will no longer cause a reject when transmitting to CBP.

3/20/2009

• T569: Enhanced formatting of the ISF notifications.

• Performance enhancements and minor bug fixes.

3/18/2009

• B594: The system will now cleanup a file that may have grown over time using up disk space and slowing the system down.

• T296: Granular permissions have been setup for ISFs (Seller read/write, seller read only etc...)

• Database analysis was performed this past week for faster loads, saves and searches.

3/13/2009

• B587: You will no longer get an error when disabling permissions on a user.

3/12/2009

• B581: When there's a space accidently put into an address line the system will trim this before transmitting.

• B578: Alpha suffixes are now allowed on the consignee numbers

• B576: When using a DUNS the address records will not be sent.

• B419: Companies who have not purchased service center access will not have permissions to setup users with transmit rights.

• T215: The user editor has been upgraded to support advanced role assignment. Additional roles will be added by next week.

• T292: There is now a password expiration option when editing the users.

• T527: When deleting users the name will be changed to free up the username for future use.

Developer Notes:

3/03/2009

• Reports have been placed online. We are still working on several larger fixes as well as new reports.

• Primary objectives:

• An upgraded user editor

• Password expiration on login options

• Better users role checks (eliminates errors)

• Secondary objectives:

• Free up usernames after they have been deleted so they can be reused.

• Add a document to explain the regulations when adding multiple bill numbers

• Change how the REASON works when transmitting amendments

• Add print capability for the transmissions and notes

• Add formatting to the entity number and tariff number fields

• Add the ability to delete profiles and parties

• Add a checkbox to the ISF to indicate the ISF has been deleted so it will not show on reports

3/03/2009

• First wave of canned reports is online (general, variance and deviation)

• Internal invoicing system has been placed online.

• B532: Entry number will now be formatted correctly on the ISF.

• B557: You can now select parties without the profile role being set.

• B565: Ship to party will now default when picking the ship to.

Developer Notes:

2/28/2009

• In an effort to become more transparent in our operations developer notes will be posted with each release explaining our planned next release.

• Release frequency has been slower than usual due to our work on reports and internal invoicing. By Monday we will have new canned reports and graphs to help you analyze your business.

• General data report (creates a data dump for analysis in Excel)

• Variance report (provides graphs based on average volume variations)

• Standard Deviation Report (provides graphs based on volumes outside the standard deviation)

2/26/2009

• User manual has been updated

• B562: When searching parties with no parties checked the system will no longer error

• T552: Simple Bill is now labeled Regular Bill on the ISF bill grid

• B549: FIRMS code will now work properly on the ship to party.

• T529: Customer is now displayed on all grids with a path.

• T506: There is a delete button on the ISF bill number grid.

• B504: The save button will now be disabled if the user only has ISF Read permissions.

• B487: When saving an ISF with multiple BOLs there may have been an error.

• T436: ISF print output is now online.

2/20/2009

• T551: Mexican states should now work as expected.

2/19/2009

• T544: The copy of all existing broker data to the ISF module has been started. Because there are millions of customers and products the process will take most of the weekend to merge.

2/18/2009

• Sync ability for profiles, products and parties from the ABI system is now capable (contact support)

• General performance enhancements preparing for profile, product and party synchronization

• B283: Filters are now available on the ISF to filter by a customer or importer.

• B522: Validation on household goods and personal effects forced a passport number, this is no longer forced.

• T230: ISF notify support has been put online.

• T541: ISF Write role was change to be ISF Read and Write

• B466: Two zeros will now be added to the bond holder when transmitting to prevent errors

• T533: Transmit buttons are now the same size

2/08/2009

• B525: When picking a consignee with an apostrophe the program would crash.

• R523: Fixed ISF-5 transmissions

• B520: Support staff can now manually send transmissions without programming intervention.

• B519: Fixed a null reference exception when adding multiple parties to an ISF.

• B472: Hourglass will now stay on the screen when loading a document.

• The ISF notify party tab was removed to prepare for an upgrade to this section.

• B518: Saving a newly transmitted ISF will now NOT overwrite the CBP transaction number causing all subsequent transmissions to fail.

• B517: New advanced options are now available for the manual setting of proxy servers.

• B505: Clicking transmit on the ISF dashboard will no longer cause a crash.

• B503: Profiles with large party lists would error out when opened.

• T501: Website has been updated to show new ISF product offering information.

• T499: The remember me check on the login screen now works.

• T498: Canadian provinces have been added to the picklists on profiles

• B468: Random typos on the website have been put online.

2/06/2009

• B497: Warnings returned from ISF transmissions were causing subsequent transmissions to fail.

• B495: ISF application crashes when the user does not have sufficient roles to access ISF.

• B494: Search panel was not showing when choosing an importer.

• B493: Invalid validation errors were occurring when saving ISFs created from a template.

• B492: Entering a tariff number with more than 12 digits on the ISF line items caused a crash when using undo.

• B491: Undo/Redo would crash the system in rare situations.

• T490: A new screen has been added to email support when there's a critical program error.

• B483: The Tax ID will now be brought into the consignee info

• T476: Product picker now defaults to the selected importer on the ISF

• B474: Duplicate usernames will no longer cause an crashing error.

• T471: Double click ability has been added to the parties and products

• T496: Transmissions will now display with the most recent on top.  

• B489: Users will not be kicked out of the system after 20 minutes of inactivity.

• B459: Consignees and manufacturer address information will now stay on the grid after saving.

• B453: When moving a profile to a different parent the properties would not properly move with the profile.

• T437: When adding a line the consignee will default to the last one added.

• T437: Color of consignee on commodity lines has been changed to yellow.

• T418: A new role has been added to the user editor to permit deleting of ISFs

• B265: When saving a user an exception is thrown if the owner of that user was changed.

2/03/2009

• B485: Internal enhancements to the query tracing system to improve performance

• B484: Duplicate messages are now hidden after transmitting an ISF

• B482: Removed temporary saving of a file RefData.xml

• T479: All warnings are now errors within the system now allowing the user to transmit w/out first fixing

• T477: Upgraded to VistaDB eliminating the need to install the SQL components on new machines

• T445: Cleanup on internal messaging tables to increase performance.

• T438: Multiple master, house and simple bills can be added to a single ISF

• T418: ISFs can now be deleted from CBP using the transmit

• T414: Sessions will now be expired after 20 minutes

• B478: The infamous Long Running Function will now only appear if the function is running for longer than 30 seconds

• B467: When picking a part the number will populate in the editor

• B465: Users can now change their own password

• T464: SBXLiveUser and SBXResearchUser will no longer appear as options to non admins in the user editor

• T457: A reset pending status for forcing an ISF transmission has been enabled.

• B449: The master bill number will now transmit with the proper qualifier

• T437: Consignee fields are now marked as mandatory yellow

• B432: Help screen will now be larger when opened.

1/28/2009

• B459: Consignee and Manufacturers disappearing upon save

• B463: When user gets an accepted ISF transmission and gets a subsequent reject the system fails to replace properly.

• T451: Change display of state and country

• B455: Picking a Consignee or MFG with a name longer than 30 characters caused an exception. ONLY when picking with the ADD/SEARCH method on the ISF Line form.

• B460: Error when clicking search under user management

• B461: When there are over 50,000 products the system is slow to download

• B462: Random error when users have corrupted config file.

• B458: State Lookup is Disabled after loading an existing ISF with a party country of US, MX, or CA

• Creating profiles did not properly pass the filer code information from the broker through causing transmission errors.

1/26/2009

• T251: Mfg and Consignee Pickers stuck in an infinite loop when editing ISF Lines

• T251: CustomsNow ABI profile and product integration put online for testing (filers that need this please contact.

• T251: CustomsNow ABI profile and product integration put online for testing (filers that need this please contact.

• B431: Teams Button was NOT being Disabled in the profile dashboard if User did NOT have correct Roles.

• B439: After Choosing a MFG from the Lines Screen using the ADD/SEARCH method, MFG address info was NOT shown in the MFG Grid

• B440: When logging into a system that doesn't have a splash screen image the system would crash.

• B441: Validations Warnings/Errors were showing if a user Added a Line

• B448: ISF accepted data free but showing to user accepted with warnings

• B430: Fixed an error when pressing ENTER after the picker form shows for Parties, Profiles, and Products.

• T429: System will now warn the user if there are more than 500 records returned for a query.

• B428: Team editor functions properly now in live.

• T426: DUNS and TaxID have been added to the profile party.

• T425: Authorized users can now edit profile teams.

• T424: POA information has been added to the profile.

• T423: Validations added to require a name for profiles, products, teams and parties.

• T417: LIVE and TEST code is split but still available for users who wish to stay in test.

• T415: User work queue dashboard query is now enabled.

• B413: Fixed status update transmissions overriding the coloring on the ISF main screen.

• T411: System moved to production database.

• T403: Full branding capabilities are now live for registered service centers.

1/23/2009

• B290/B409: Clerical error transmission reason will not appear when it's the first time the ISF is transmitted.

• B410: Fixed cases where multiple transmissions would be processed and not split apart.

1/22/2009

• Pressing RETURN inside of ISF, product, profile, and party search controls performs the search

• State Dropdown shows proper provinces/states based on country selected, also shown disabled unless US, CA, or MX is chosen. Label changes between "State" and "Province"

• Available Party Qualifiers are passed through the party control when choosing "Add Another"

• Fixed an incorrect User Role was causing an Exception on Transmission

1/21/2009

• Last transmission message on the ISF header will show yellow for a warning and red for an error.

• History will now show yellow if the message is a warning or red if an error.

• When picking parties, ADD - opens the ADD form modally and the picker is refreshed automatically.

• Focus is now set to Search Field on pickers when first loaded

• Default buttons set on Pickers

• Numerous small GUI modifications/enhancements

• Fixed a bug causing a loaded ISF to act like it had changes, causing the "Save Changes" prompt

• Fixed a bug when clicking on ALL/NONE for selecting Party Types when Adding a new Profile Party because ISF parties had smaller max length.

• Fixed a bug when selecting a party with fields that had too many characters crashing the ISF parties

• When picking a party for "Ship To", Consignee and Crossdock are default party types now

• Various checks implemented to prevent potential bugs when picking parties etc

• Pick buttons for MFG & Consignee work properly now.

• Manufacturers that are not attached to lines will not be transmitted anymore.

• Validations will now show error when a manufacturer is not selected on a line.

• When partial data is not required it will not be sent.

• Validations have been fixed for all party types.

1/13/2009

• Permissions are now checked to show or hide pick buttons for parties.

• Information about the last transmission now shows on the ISF header.

• Type of bond can be selected from a dropdown that's less confusing.

• First tab will now be selected on the ISF screen.

• Fixed wording on country code validation within parties.

• Fixed bug when validating or saving ISF

• Profile, party and product data validations added.

• Profile, party and product interfaces refined.

• New permissions have been added to the user editor allowing party searching or party editing.

• Profile screen has received a face lift.

• Profiles screen has additional toolbar buttons to edit products and parties.

• Transaction party search is integrated with areas that required name, addresses or IDs of parties.

• Transaction parties now have checkboxes to indicate their function for easy search ability.

• Parties will now dynamically enable or disable fields when ID types are selected.

• Yellow fields now indicate mandatory fields based on the data being entered.

• The header fields have been reorganized.

• A new date field is placed on the header to indicate when additional information is required.

• Fixed ISF layout corruption.

• Data validations have been greatly improved and prepared for our support team to add dynamic help.

• Notes are displayed in the transmission history side-by-side with transmissions.

• Notes are now available from the ISF tool bar.

• Transmissions will now store a reason.

• Transmissions that require additional data in the future now set a flag for reporting.

• Transmissions now check the document for pending transmissions.

• Transmissions now check the document for completed status prior to transmission.

• Transmissions now re-validate the document prior to transmission.

• When saving an ISF it now shows properly in the grid

• Misc customer profile editor changes

• Misc product editor changes

• Added new party list search control

• CBP certification queues have been setup allowing test transmissions.

• Changed configuration causing problems communicating through some proxy servers

• Fixed a bug when copying lines on the ISF

• Various internal fixes related to performance and stability

12/16/2008

• Fixed a bug in the user editor that caused passwords to be reset wrongly.

• Added profile editor.

• Added profile picker.

• Adjusted timings of the pending request window. It will now only appear after 7 seconds of no response from the server.

• Fixed a bug where the system would go into fail over when certain types of expected errors were thrown.

12/12/2008

• Fixed a bug that occurred when saving existing users

• Changed incomplete ISF list to exclude templates

• Added some simple validations to the save routine

• Changes the seller address to show as disabled instead of hidden when roles were not set for the user

12/11/2008

• Added the change log to the application

• Added search button functionality to the dashboard

• Added information center page as the entry screen

• Fixed a bug preventing users from authenticating when using certain proxy servers