Release notes

AGORA RELEASE NOTES

We want to thank all our aGora users that contribute the launch of new versions and program compilations with their inestimable suggestions.

Through the release notes you will view some novelties added to the updates and new versions of the program. These novelties expand aGora constantly, providing it of improved stability, new functionalities, solved errors, etc.

aGora Release Notes

Release notes 4.59.750

  • NEW FEATURE Added new generic XML export option for Invoices. This new option can be accessed in the Management of invoices list window, on the "List window utilities" dropdown menu.
  • NEW FEATURE New field added to Timetables: "Online". This field is used to determine if that timetable is taught remotely via videoconference or if it is otherwise taught on-site. This new field is also required for the new aGora.Connect features and it's brand new Zoom compatibility.
  • NEW FEATURE New field added to Pre-enrolments: "Level of studies". This field addition allows the aGora.enrollMe extension API calls to provide the content for said field, providing more useful information for the created pre-enrolment.
  • NEW FEATURE New field added to Results in parts: "Order". This field is used to determine the order the different parts are shown in the "Results in parts (batch management)" window. Also edited the code so it does not cause problems if the parts assigned to each subject change in the future.
  • NEW FEATURE New field added to "Details of expenses … " query group: "Expense type" (abbreviated to "Type").
  • NEW FEATURE New field added to "Management of expenses" list window and expenses-related queries: "Instalment plan", showing in how many instalments is the payment divided.
  • NEW FEATURE Added export compatibility in aGora for one more accounting software: SAGE200C.
  • NEW FEATURE Added a new precaution when exporting accounting information from aGora. This new precaution checks if any kind of mismatch exists in the transactions of each accounting entry before exporting them, so as to avoid future problems when importing the data to the company's accounting software.
  • NEW FEATURE New option added to aGora's Control Panel: when sending a contract via e-mail, the option determines if the addresee should be the customer or the student (in each case, the contract will be sent to the main e-mail address of the addresee)
  • NEW FEATURE New optional field can be added to student attendance reports: "Contract type".
  • NEW FEATURE New optional field can be added to student attendance reports: "Customer".
  • NEW FEATURE The "Course group", "Course subject", "Cause of discard" and "Area of interest" fields are now also exported when using the "Migrate data" tool to migrate data between different companies.
  • NEW FEATURE Added optional fields "Total of contract's bills", "Paid total of contract's bills" and "Total of contract's bills pending payment" to the Contract report.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected error in "Profitability forecast" query: If the "Only take active groups into account in profitability calculations" option in the Control Panel was not checked, the expenses were not properly calculated, since the course groups inactive in the provided date range were also taken into account.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected error in "Profitability forecast" query: The "Others" income calculations did not take into account the bill date and instead added ALL bills pertaining to the category, no matter their date.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected error in invoice generation: If the bill concept or the customer's full name exceeded a certain size, and the process needed to add further text due to Control Panel options, the full text exceeded the maximum field size and the process failed.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected error when adding new entries to the historic database: When creating new invoices a new historic entry was created. This should not happen, so it was corrected.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected error when adding new entries to the historic database: When changing data privacy options for students, customers, teachers or requests, if the text exceeded a certain size, it failed when creating the related historic entry.
  • FIXING SOURCE Improved error handling in the aGora.Mailchimp module: aGora showed ambiguous error messages, which failed to explain the problem clearly. Now the process has been changed to show the error message provided via the Mailchimp API, which is more clear about the specific cause of the problem.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected an error in statistics windows: If the graph exceeded a specific number of columns, the process failed.
  • FIXING SOURCE Improved the functionality of statistics windows, so they do not show a secondary grid if its values were the same as the ones in the primary grid.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected an error in accounting entries' list window: if, when prompted to choose a preliminary filter you chose "By date", the process failed because it acted as if two dates were necessary.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected an error triggered when registering an incoming payment for a bill inside the bill's edit window: If the bill had an accounting entry linked, the process of generating the incoming payment created an annulment accounting entry, but it had no reason to do so.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected an error in the aGora.enrollMe module synchronization process: the synchronization process did not work correctly for those of our customers who only had the aGora.enrollMe module active.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected an error in the aGora.enrollMe module synchronization process: the "Staff" field was not synchronizing properly.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected an error in the aGora.enrollMe module synchronization process: the line breaks on the "Observations" field were not showing properly when saving the pre-enrolment created by the synchronization process.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected an error in the batch process "Reactivate course groups and their contracts/selected contracts": The process was not correctly removing the Reason for end of contract.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected an error in the Results in parts (batch management) window: When several "Assessment results' types" were in play at once, the dropdown menu did not correctly recognize which of them was bonded to the selected part.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected an error in the Results in parts (batch management) window: If there were more parts on screen than could be shown, when choosing a result for a part the window's visibility jumped down to the end of the list, instead of remaining near the last edited result.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected an error when sorting the parts in the "Results in parts (batch management)" window: when showing a result which parts had already been evaluated, the order used to sort them was not the intended one.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected an error triggered by the new sorting process used when showing the "Results in parts (batch management)" window, which caused the results not to be saved properly.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected an error concerning permissions: when manually asigning a teacher to a course group option, if the user had not full access permission to Teachers, no teacher was shown and therefore no teacher could be selected. Now the teachers can be selected even if the user has no full access permission for teachers.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected an error triggered when reactivating contracts bearing the "Payment in one or more instalments (subscribed hours)" type: If when reactivating the contact the user chose not to reactivate the related course groups, when terminating the contract again the end date was incorrectly set to the end date of the first course group linked to the contract, instead of that of the last of the finished course groups linked to the contract.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected a date error on contracts bearing the "Payment in one or more instalments (subscribed hours)" type: If the contract has finished naturally (by reaching the total of hours subscribed), but the linked course group is still active, the end date set for the contract was mistakenly set to the course group's end date.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected an error sending internal reports via e-mail in PDF format: when saving the sent email in the database, its body was saved without the signature footer.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected an error in the "Batch copying of groups" batch process: When choosing the "Yes, keep data" on the Group Economic data section, the Academic year was not kept.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected an error when sending SMS: A change in the coding intended to provide a comparison with a new table caused the process to fail.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected an error when exporting ledger accounts: when choosing Contaplus as the target software, and the "Export only ledger accounts linked to non-exported entries", an error in the coding of a SQL query caused the process to fail.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected an error when importing a returned SEPA direct debit transactions file: The process did not allow the user to set return-caused expenses.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected an error in search windows using the new window format with selection checkboxes: when cancelling to abandon the window with no selection, the program instead acted as if every checkbox had been selected.
  • FIXING SOURCE Corrected an error creating a student using the data stored in a pre-enrolment: the "Gender" and "NIF" fields were not inherited correctly.