What's new?

Contents of the patches (updates within the version)

Welcome to the innovations of DATAflor BUSINESS Version 2023.
Below we have listed the program changes and additions for you briefly and compactly. The detailed functionality is described in the individual chapters of the program help. The innovations listed here relate to the entire program. Some functions are license-dependent and are not available to all users.

In this webinar recording, we present the innovations in image and sound. Take 50 minutes and inform yourself and your colleagues about the new program functions including the new PROJECT app.

• Print management
  • Construction site LV
  • Switched to the new print management
  • Order LV
  • Switched to the new print management
  • delivery note
  • Switched to the new print management
  • Change of invoice amount
  • Has been switched to the new print management and a new form of output is available for changing the amount by item.
  • Invoice printing
    • EPC (giro code) - For the issue of invoices, the generation of a payment code can be selected in the form settings. The invoice recipients have the option of reading in the necessary payment data directly with a banking app.
  • Form manager
    • In the form groups (Nearly) new groups are available for LV printouts without a price and for changing the amount. This means that you can also create your own form variants for these printouts.

• Cancel bills
  • In this version, the function is also available for customers with the new DATEV 7 accounting interface.
  • For the other interfaces set up, the previous procedure of deleting with a log remains.

• Create new address
  • When importing files for addresses that have not yet been recorded, the recognized data can be used to create the address.
    
• View
  • In addition to the left-right switch of the task overview/file view and the data fields, the task overview/file view can be opened in an extra window and thus also displayed on a separate screen.
    
  • User with the new user right Show all tasks can choose between viewing their own tasks and all tasks in the digital inbox. In addition, these users can edit/forward/delegate any task on behalf of colleagues, etc. After the upgrade, the users are part of the user group Administrator entitled to use the new function.
    
• Feed
  • The yellow marking of the feed shows, even when the feed is collapsed, if there are manually entered entries.
• Inclusion in the construction file
  • Text variables without a value are not used for the automatic assignment of the document designation.
  • When the invoice is divided into several LVs, the text variables [LV-NR] and [LV-DESIGNATION] are filled with the addition "ua", eg "109047-01-0001 ua", "redesign of house garden ua".
  • For the workflow Other the default for category and document type can be left empty.
• Directory monitoring
  • The notice about unprocessable files is only displayed to users who have the new user right Display notice about unprocessable files own. After the upgrade, these are the users with the user right Edit Settings.
• Define stamps
  • The new text variable [INPUT DATE] is available for the design of stamps. It is automatically filled with the date in the field when the stamp is set date of receipt is set.
    
• Selection of the LV
  • In addition to the number and designation of the LV, the name of the client is also displayed in the list for selecting the LV.
• More import options - By means of the directory monitoring of the digital inbox, XML files can be imported from external systems that contain appointment quantities for nursing billing, quantities for the quantity estimate or material deliveries, as well as wage and device hours for an order.
  

• Digital invoice receipt
  • Import of e-invoices
    • All invoice data is read from the XML part of e-invoices in ZUGFeRD format.
    • For X invoices, the data contained in the XML file is read out and a PDF file is generated from it. This is displayed for support in the digital inbox and saved in addition to the XML file in the construction file.
      
  • Detailed recording of the invoice items (incl. item, quantity, price, G/L account, etc.)
    • The data of the invoice items are clearly read from the XML part of e-invoices and entered in the entry fields.
    • In the case of PDF invoices without an XML part (e.g. from a scanned paper invoice), automatic field recognition supports data entry.
      
    • For the invoice items that have been read out/recognized, the appropriate delivery note for the assignment is suggested from the delivery note postings that have already been recorded in the post-calculation.
      
    • A search can be carried out using the read/recognized designation to allocate a preliminary cost estimate or a material article/plant from the master data. In addition, suitable suggestions are automatically highlighted.
    • When assigning a delivery note, the delivery note no. and the cost type can be changed later.
    • To select the general ledger account, the general ledger accounts are displayed with number, name, tax rate and account type. Like the list for selecting a life insurance, the selection list is filtered according to the displayed data as soon as you start entering characters, so that the desired account can be found quickly.
    • If the business area-independent entry is not permitted (program parameter 80.30.50 = 2), only the construction sites with the business area of ​​the invoice are displayed for selection in the selection list of the LV.
  • Checking an invoice for deliveries to several construction sites from different site managers
    • Is the inbox for a processing step [Construction manager] or [Responsible course] are set and several construction sites of different site managers/responsible persons are selected, the task is displayed one after the other to the employees concerned for processing. This means, for example, that an invoice is only posted after it has been checked by all site managers/those responsible.
  • Collection of invoices for device costs
    • For the entry of incoming invoices, the LV device management to get voted.
    • For device invoices, the business area can be selected individually. It is not intended to split the invoice between the device LV and other LVs.
    • The document of a device invoice is automatically linked to the booked devices in the construction file and thus to the devices on the tab in the device management Documents displayed.
  • Entry of invoices for stock items
    • For incoming invoices for deliveries to the warehouse (LV = Warehouse) the business area can be selected individually. The invoice is not split between the warehouse LV and other LVs.
  • Editing the payment term
    • The due date (payment target) and the end of the discount period (discount period) are determined and displayed based on the payment conditions stored in the address master data for the supplier. In addition, the percentage of the discount granted (discount percentage) and the resulting discount amount are displayed. All values ​​can be changed individually for each invoice.
  • Table functions
    • The layouts of all tables can be designed individually, independently of each other (column selection, column order, grouping, filter). The settings are saved user-related (Windows users).
      
      
• You can find a detailed description of all the functions of the digital inbox here

• move projects - Projects can be moved to another client in the project tree, including all associated data (LVs, construction sites, quantity lists, construction site accounts, documents, price requests, etc.). The function can be run by the users who have the new user right move projects are authorized to do so.

• Marking of checked data fields - In the item overview, all checked data fields are displayed with a red border or a red border and can be edited there immediately. In the table, the markings of the automatic test are shown in the first column as in the position tree.
• editing of texts - It is possible to edit long and short texts in the table view
• Individual markings of positions - In program parameter 60.20.140, symbols for individual marking of positions can be selected from an icon library. The desired text can be individually designed for the icons according to the requirements of the workflow.
  These markers can be used in the position overview. Multiple individual markers can also be used for one position.
  In status sortable list it is also possible to sort by symbols.
• Viewing text additions via auto position marker - Enables the marking and targeted jumping to positions with required text supplements in GAEB and ÖNORM-LV.

• Connection HTI OnlinePlus - From the pre-calculation of an item you can go directly to the HTI OnlinePlus portal be accessed. One or more articles are transferred from the portal to the preliminary calculation. You need an HTI OnlinePlus access, the data of which is stored in parameter 70.40.90.
  The data of an existing HTI article can also be updated from the preliminary calculation.

• new app - DATAflor PROJECT - The ideal companion for exchanging data between the construction site and the office.
• TIME
  • It is now possible to post bonus wage types.
  • Set-up and travel times can be detected.
  • Booking of appointment quantities within the app to prepare care invoices using batch printing.

• TIME-Import - Complete revision
  • Integration of the construction file into the interface
  • Display of booking locations and construction sites simplified
  • Improvement of multi-editing
  • Additional columns, filters and groups to optimize the individual view of the booking data
  • Notifications about new records created by the TIME App have been submitted
  • Posting of wage types with surcharges

• Access control - Documents about the function Access for are protected in the DATAflor Construction files are only displayed to users who have been granted access to this document. The user right Manage construction files no longer affects access control.

• Additional planning sections - It is possible to duplicate a plan for a LV (construction project). This further planning section can be planned independently of the original planning.
• Recurring appointments - It is possible to create an appointment as a series with fixed repeat appointments.
  One or more series can be created for each course.

• Accounting interface DATEV 7
  • New data format - A new data format for the posting data and voucher images is available for the transfer to DATEV.
  • additional transmission path - In addition to exchange via email, access to the online booking data service is available.
  • general reversal - The DATEV 7 interface supports the transfer of cancellation invoices using the general reversal booking procedure.
  • half-finished work - New account options are available for this.
  • performance date - In addition to the document and posting date, the end of construction of the document can be transferred as the service date for customer invoices.
  • Service Industry - For the conversion from DATEV32 or DATEVpro to DATEV 7, we offer an online service to support the setup.

• New payroll interfaces available: conSITE and SBS Pay Plus
• History of the handover

• STLB construction - From October, only the NEW version will be available for the STLB-Bau text system. BUSINESS 2023 supports data access and taking position texts. The XML V2 interface of the STLB-Bau will be omitted from issue 2022-10.
• he grunted - Version 3.3 is supported for exchanging specifications in the GAEB-XML procedure.
  Please only use for the course exchange with your partners GAEB XML with files and extensions *.X8n. GAEB90 and GAEB2000 with the endings *.D8n and *P8n are outdated methods.
• geocapture - There is a possibility documents from geoCapture by means FTP- or directory monitoring of the digital inbox in the BUSINESS to take over the construction file.
  Absences from the geoCapture time recording can be BUSINESS Personnel manager to be taken over.
• gala work - By means of the directory monitoring of the digital inbox, XML files can be imported that contain appointment quantities for nursing billing, quantities for the quantity estimate or material deliveries for an order.

• new expression Hourly wages/salaries with the monthly overview of the hourly wages/salaries of all employees

• New plant catalogs available: BRUNS 2022/23, Fehrle perennials 2022, Tree nursery Stöckl 2022
• The catalogs are in Download Area available for you on our website.

• Version manager - Automate the upgrade to install outside of usage hours
  • After the upgrade has been activated, its availability is displayed in the version manager. For updating the BUSINESSprogram on the server, a time can be specified (e.g. outside normal working hours the next night) at which the installation is carried out automatically. This will happen at the workstations in the network BUSINESS-Program automatically run after the next computer start, so users can continue their work in BUSINESS can start directly with the new version.
  • You can find a detailed description of the procedure here.
• Note: From version BUSINESS In 2024, the operating systems Windows 8 and Server 2012 will no longer be supported.
  Please use the next year to adapt your system environment.