Includes New York state (plus Yonkers) and California May 01, 2009 tax calculation updates.

All New York state and California payroll users will require this version to process payroll after May 1st, 2009.

Arizona Withholding Changes

Senate Bill 1185 amended the amounts required to be withheld for Arizona withholding purposes. Currently the amount required to be withheld is a percentage of federal withholding. For amounts withheld through April 30, 2009 the amount required to be withheld, at the employee's election, is 10%, 19%, 23%, 25%, 31% or 37% for individuals whose annual compensation is less than $15,000. For individuals whose annual compensation is more than $15,000 the amount that is required to be withheld is 19%, 23%, 25%, 31% or 37%.

For income tax withheld on or after May 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009, the percentages will be increased as follows:

Rates for May 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009

NV2 Arizona Payroll Users substitute the old rate located on the employee State Deductions Paycode window table on line 5 Percent. Change the rate from 10 to 11.5 as per the example above.

Error renaming a journal.

Version 2.14.0 introduced an error "Attempted to clear a journal name"... when attempting to rename a journal. This release fixes the problem.

Error using @B in paycheck detail item description.

If a payroll account's paycode field Percent Base expression loads account quantities that are empty, an error occurs. This release fixes the problem.

The Tools>Pay Account preview window had some issues/confusion relating to the calculation of discounts.

A review of the code prompted a significant behavior change. The old version keyed off Pay Up To Date to determine if an invoice is due, or a discount for early payment is still available. This version keys off Check Date.

The Tools>Pay Account preview window Previous Account and Next Account buttons were changed to respect the selected block(s).

Dito for the Tools>Apply Payments and Tools>Apply Deposits commands.

Print>Detail Windows command settings now include the "page" separator.

Change to Excel Fit to # pages wide.

A new error message occurs when you attempt to use a page break separator in Excel output that is formatted for Fit to # pages wide. It's tricky to get Excel to do this, and it adds a lot of compexity to the resulting worksheet. It was decided to prohibit it.

To use the page break separator, clear Fit to # pages wide and if necessary set the Scaling (10 - 400%) value to something that fits the page width.

A new button has been added - Delete & Disable Prompt.

Deleting several columns of a table window is tedious (each column deleted must be individually confirmed). A new button has been added to the confirm prompt - Delete & Disable Prompt. Pressing it will delete the active column, and disable the confirm prompt for all subsequent column delete operations.

The prompt is disabled until the table window is destroyed (e.g. when you navigate away, or shutdown).

Bookmarks (and Forward/Back) are now multiple-database-explorer capable.

The address field for template printing has been updated.

The City, State and Postal/Zip code fields are formatted in the manner specified by Canada Post Addressing Guidelines and the US Postal Service Addressing Standards.

Change to "Percentage Base" payroll calculation on quantities.

Prior to this release, it was not possible to "Percentage Base" a payroll calculation on quantities. The Percentage Base field of the payroll account Pay Code window has been upgraded to permit expressions that lookup account quantities, in addition to account amounts.

A typical expression might look like REG+OVT. You can now enter an expression like REG.Q+OVT.Q. Placing .Q at the end of an account suffix name will load the quantity instead of the amount.

Also, two new "codes" have been added for paycode Description substitutions: @B will be replaced by the calculated Percentage Base value, and @% will be replaced by the Percent value.

A workstation could only access up to 2 databases through the same server.

This problem was inadvertantly introduced in the previous release. This release now allows any number of databases to be opened.

Empty Transaction Edit Range dates allowed changes to total tos.

A user with empty Transaction Edit Range dates was prohibited from changing account total tos. This release fixes the problem.

A Print>Detail Windows command, in some circumstances, caused a "Could not find field..." bug. This release fixes the problem.

Erroneous error printing transaction details from table.

A Print>Detail Windows command issued on a posting explorer's table to print transaction detail windows erroneously reported the error "...must be run from a table explorer control pane, with a table selected in the detail pane.". This release fixes the problem.

Over-sensitive mouse block select.

A user reported a problem, also noticed by Q.W. Page staff, that blocks were being marked by accident. The reasons for this are technical, and involve processor speed, mouse sensitivity settings, and a bug/problem in Window's event queue management. This release allows you to "skirt" the problem with a command line argument. Booting NewViews from a command prompt looks something like:

C:\NV>nv2 -file workstation.nv2

A command line argument "-mouse_motion_select_requires_control_key" will disable mouse motion select, unless the key is also held down while the mouse is moving. The new command line to boot NewViews looks something like:

C:\NV>nv2 -mouse_motion_select_requires_control_key -file workstation.nv2

The problem will be studied further, but most likely the next version release (i.e. 2.15.0) will include a user option for easy enable/disable.

Servers were experiencing long pauses.

From time to time a server might appear to "hang" or suffer a long pause. This was due to an incorrectly set internal diagnostic mode. This release fixes the problem.

A server could not be converted to version 2.14.

The previous release could not convert a server to version 2.14. An error message appeared on any attempt to update a server database to version 2.14. This release fixes the problem.

April 2009 Payroll update

Includes Canadian April 01, 2009 tax calculation update.

All Canadian payroll users will require this version to process payroll after April 1st, 2009.

Includes United States April 01, 2009 tax calculation update.

All United States payroll users will require this version to process payroll after April 1st, 2009.

Batch Printing

Printing many tables (e.g. reports) one at a time is tedious. You can now select blocks of items to print and execute one command.

Automatic Print Titles

Filling in the titles of a Print Settings prompt can be tedious (i.e. the Print>All and Print>Block commands).

If the name of the setting includes the character pattern "automatic titles" (case and position insensitive), the title row values are computed by NewViews.

Print Account Ledgers from Reports

The Print>Account Ledgers command now operates on a table of reports.

Discontiguous Blocks

Marking a single block of items to perform a command can be awkward, if the items are not all side by side in one group. This release allows you to mark many blocks at the same time, using the mouse and shift-key cursor movement.

Pay List import from Excel

Employee hours and other quantity information can be imported directly into a Payrun Pay List using information stored in an Excel file. To import, navigate to a Pay List window and issue the Tools>Import Excel command.

Account re-total respects user's transaction edit date range

Any attempt to re-total an account will first check to make sure no transactions exist which are dated outside the user's transaction edit date range. Prior to this release, any user with access to any (blue) account tables was able to "muck-up" the total-to arithmitic of a set of books. This new feature elevates changing total-to arithmitic to very senior access-rights users.

Release field added to server connection table.

The connection table on a server displays various information about the workstation represented by the connection but it did not display the workstation's version. The workstation's version is now displayed in the Release field in the form 2.14.0.xxxxxxxxx. Several users suggested that when watching the server connection table, they wished to also monitor the versions of workstations.

Read-only serial numbers.

NewViews can now be run with a read-only serial number. Read-only serial numbers have special licensing arrangements.

A bug occurred when a workstation was in the middle of booting and the mouse pointer entered a toolbar button.

This release fixes the bug.

Problem occurred when re-parenting a journal.

When you re-parent a journal, i.e. move it from one parent "folder" to another, the transactions of the moved journal did not appear as expected in the new parent. This problem was introduced in version 2.11.4 (released Dec 2008) due to the fix of an another problem. If you re-parented journals using any version from 2.11.4 to 2.13.1, the database will have integrity problems that can be detected using nvcheck and fixed using nvreorganize.

nvcheck Repair>Dangling Double Indirects didn't work.

This rarely used command has been broken since 2.12.0.20081222 was released. This release fixes the problem.

Problem occurred displaying the sum of Box 52 Pension Adjustment on the Canadian payroll T4 list.

The sum will now update when you press [Ctrl+F5] to force a window re-calc/update.

Also, a bug that crashed NewViews occurred when the sum was edited. This release fixes the bug.