TntMPD 3.0.1 (lots of bug fixes!)

Hey Troy,

why did you remove the Microsoft Access Menu? I had a connection with another database which I used to execute some custom select queries for statistics which my coach wants. The Query Editor from that menu is gone, the only thing that is left is the "File -> Utilities -> Run Query" but i cannot save my queries there like before. Please bring that feature back!

I've encountered two (unfixed) bugs in my preliminary testing of 3.0.1:

(1) Encountered Internal Error: Cannot find CountryID 0 when attempting to download addresses from organization (I have the details on this if needed)

(2) Drag-and-drop did not work on sent email dragged in from Outlook, even though recipient's email was on the contact.

Should I be able to update using the Help --> Check for BETA updates within tntMPD version 3.0.0? (I cannot)

Hi Troy, here's a big issue for you: the copyright date in the Help -> About dialog window say "2000-2012", which could be a bit confusing when doing tech support and trying to determine at a glance how old someone's TntMPD installation is...  :)

Hi Troy, here's another minor UI quirk: Tab order on the "New Database Password - Security Questions" dialog.  It seems that the tab order is all the question text boxes, then all the answers.  I noticed it when I edited Q3 and then hit Tab expecting to then type in answer 3, but instead I was overwriting Answer 1.  Make sense?

Hi Troy, I updated our in-house TntServer emulator to send out some of the new fields that TntMPD 3 will use.  Thanks for all the new options!

UI Quirk: One of the new fields is a memo on a donation.  When viewing the Gift Details then you can only see the first sentence-ish of that memo in its text box.  If you hover the cursor over the box it'll display the whole memo, but just for a few seconds and then it disappears.  Kinda awkward.  Anything you can do about displaying those memos better?

Another UI Quirk: When opening an existing 3.0 DB and being prompted to enter my DB password, Tnt seems to be confused about the state of the Caps Lock key pretty often.  I am running 3.0.1 in a virtual machine, but entering text into other programs verifies that the keyboard's Caps Lock LED is being correctly interpreted by Windows in general.

Doing an Address Input from Web ends with a dialog that says, "Congratulations!  You have successfully synchronized address and phone information with <Org Name>."  However, now 3.0 can get email information too!

I just did my first gift input since 3.0 and I was impressed by the dialog that asked about the created tasks.

Well done!

I am now getting 3.01 and seeing how it works.

Nick

When I try to restore a backup of my database to get to an earllier version, I get the error:  "Could not delete....(filename)"

I sent all of my contacts to Outlook and from there to my iPhone. I noticed two related things:

1. Almost all of my contacts are in the USA, and United States ofAmerica is listed as the country. I don't need the country if it is the U.S.

2. The country name is missing a space between "of" and "America"

I just tested the drag-and-drop email with a contact with whom I had exchanged several dozen emails recently (these weren't MPD emails--I was just testing).

The Received emails correctly posted to the selected contact, both for the emails received from the contact's first email as well as the secondary email after I added that email and resolved them.

However, when I dragged the SENT emails--and equal number--none of them posted to the recipient's history.

Troy, I was wondering if I 'upgrade' by db by using alpha version 3.0.1 if the db is then no longer backward compatible?  I would to help you out with some testing of 3.0.1, but am just trying to determine the 'best' method.  Just in case something goes wrong in the alpha version.  You can chalk my question up to years of working in the software industry and upgrades not always working.  thanks.

Very minor question - In the auto task list from a gift import - I see a minor change in what the task does with a gift with no change (ie. as in penny's).

Example:

Before: Send thank-you for gift of $50.00 (last thank was 12 month(s) ago).

Now: Send thank-you for gift of $50 (last thank was 17 month(s) ago).

Was this intentional? Not a big deal but thought I'd mention it if it wasn't.

Thanks Troy.  Is there a way to run the two version of Tnt side-by-sde then?