Fusion 3.8

Build Date: 2019-08-30

New Features

  • Regenerating lots in the Lot Center window, printing the Feedlot Usage Report, and printing Customer Invoices is now up to 5 times faster.
  • The look of the bunk call graph has been updated, mainly by changing the coloring of the bunk call bars to indicate when bunk calls were increasing, decreasing, or staying the same throughout the feeding period.
  • A brand new system for calculating tax has been added to Fusion. Please see the Tax Handling Changes section at the bottom of this document for important information about these changes.

Changes

  • When doing an advanced print report, Fusion used to default to printing the displayed records which sometimes resulted in people accidentally printing very long reports. Fusion now defaults to printing the selected records unless zero records are selected.
  • With the changes to the bunk call graph explained above, the option to change the coloring of each element of the graph in the Preferences window is no longer available. Instead, each computer remembers its own color theme as set from the gear button in the Bunk Call/Feed Delivery or Daily Feed Detail window.

Bug Fixes

  • The Override Feed Guard button was not visible in the Bunk Call tab when the feed guard was on, making it impossible to make a bunk call when not beside the pen for those with permission to do this. This is fixed.
  • Fixed an error that could occur on the first launch at a new feedlot as Fusion was setting up all the defaults.
  • When making multiple bunk calls on the same day, if the bunk score wasn't specified on the last bunk call made in the day, other areas in Fusion would think no bunk score was made on that day. This is fixed. Now the remembered bunk score for each day will be the last non-zero score that was made on the day.
  • In some circumstances it was possible to have two ration versions with the same version date. This is fixed.
  • Fusion didn't include associated saved searches and sorts when exporting an advanced print report. This is fixed.
  • When printing an Advanced Print report, it was impossible to cancel the printing once Fusion was sending the report to the printer. This is fixed.

Tax Handling Changes

We've implemented a brand new way of handling taxes for customer invoices and other areas in Fusion. In previous versions of Fusion you would set up a tax formula in the Billing section of the Preferences window. Fusion would apply this formula at the end of each day to feed, drugs, inputs, other items, and yardage to calculate tax. The tax formula system is now deprecated in Fusion in favor of the new tax rate system.

The tax rate system works by having a tax rate associated with each ingredient, drug, input, etc. This is done using the new Tax Rate attribute which is available for ingredients, drugs, inputs, and water meters. This tax rate can be set up and changed over time using the attribute edit windows or the Bulk Attribute Change window. Associating a tax rate with yardage is done in the Lot Edit window where the other yardage information for each lot is set up. There is a new column where you can specify the tax rate for the yardage. (You can set the default yardage tax rate in the Preferences window and this will be used for all new yardage entries.) The Lot Edit window also has a new column in the Other Items list where you can specify a separate tax amount for each item.

In order for historical data to be unchanged, and so that you can switch to the tax rate system at your convenience, we've added a new field to the Billing section of the Preferences window. This field indicates the date you wish Fusion to switch from the tax formula system to the new tax rate system. When Fusion is calculating a report or invoice, it will use the tax formula system for any day before this date and the new system for any day on or after this date.

It is important to realize that this date field completely controls which tax system Fusion will use. So, even if you have entered a yardage tax rate or a tax amount for an other item, they will be ignored for things that are before this date.

We recommend the following steps when switching to the new tax rate system:

  1. Decide what date you will switch to the new system. It likely makes the most sense for this to be on the first day of the month for most people, possibly even the beginning of a GST reporting period for those in Canada. We'll refer to this as the "switch date".
  2. Add an appropriate tax rate attribute for each ingredient, drug, input, and water meter. In Canada this will usually be 5.00%. Make sure the attribute change date is on or before the switch date. Adding these attributes will be fastest by using the Bulk Attribute Change window. Remember that you can use the Custom Formula feature in this window to apply the same tax rate to most or all of the items with just one click.
  3. Open the Preferences window, go to the Lots section, and enter the default yardage tax rate.
  4. Go to the Billing section of the Preferences window and enter the switch date.
  5. If you have a tax rate associated with yardage, you will need to edit each open lot to add this tax rate with a new yardage entry for the switch date.
  6. If you have any other items that are dated on or after the switch date, enter the tax amount you want Fusion to report for it (if any) in the Lot Edit window.

Fusion will now start using the new tax rate system for any data it is calculating from the switch date onward.

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