Mon 3 Mar 2008
Apologies for the infrequent blog postings, but this one should be worth the wait. Moneydance 2008 is now into its public beta stage of release which means that we think it might be ready for general use and there’s only a few more small changes to be made before the full release.
The current version beta is build 602 and was uploaded to moneydance last night. This is the third bug-fix release of the beta series and included the following changes over build 601:
- GUI date-picker for all date fields
- Fixed bugs when editing transaction reminders
- Slightly fade the rest of the register when editing a transaction
- Fixed bug that bypassed normal shutdown process when closing the main window
- Switched back to the curly style thermometer graph zoomer and added some lickable enhancements
- Fix ‘growing account popup’ problem for vertical growth, at least
- Added helpful text to register quick-search field when empty
Build 601 included the following changes over 600:
- Fixed bug that prevented creation of new transaction reminders
- Fixed foreground color of main account popup
- Fixed calculation and display (in budget editor) of budget entries for non-categories. Budget entries for regular accounts (investment, bank, cc, loan, asset and liability) no longer apply to sub-accounts.
- Show appropriate increase/decrease labels in reminder transaction editor
- Fixed calculation of investment transaction total amount when there is a fee and the txn type is a SellXfr or a Short
- File saving now writes to a temporary file and then renames the temp file to the main file after writing has successfully completed. No more EOFException when (auto)file saving is interrupted by a crash.
- Fixed cmd-Y/ctrl-Y hotkey to synchronize tax dates and regular dates in transaction entry
- No longer add asterisk to title bar when there is unsaved data if we’re on a mac
- Dimmed transaction register while editing a transaction
- Fixed bug that prevented online transaction ID for downloaded transaction from being attached to local transactions. This is what caused the little ‘i’ to not appear on transactions that were downloaded.
- Txn editor in register now fully closes (cancels) when the register is filtered
- Added java property (”moneydance.checknum_series_threshold”) to allow people to tell MD to look a specified number of days backwards when finding the previous check number.
- Fixed bug that made already-matched transactions appear as default options when they should be low-possibility options.
Build 600 had too many changes to list, so I’ll use the time saved to go work on the documentation.
[update: I guess I should provide the download URL] moneydance.com/preview
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:43 pm
I really really want to use Moneydance, but do not see support for Edward Jones online. Edward Jones works online with Money, Quicken, and I even tried iBank the other day and it worked with them too. I see that there is a way to set it up manually, but don’t know any of the information needed to make it work, and when I called Edward Jones they of course stated that it isn’t supported.
I also need employee stock option support to make the switch. I’ve written more than one time and haven’t received a reply.
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Chris, just a suggestion (and I am only a Mondeydance user like yourself) - you might want to submit this as a ticket rather than a comment on the blog. Perhaps it’s easier to get a response that way. Not sure, but thought I’d throw it out there.
March 9th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Where is the button to bring up the entry of a split?
What is the keyboard shortcut to bring up a split?
March 9th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Al,
The button to bring up the entry for a split is at the top of the Category window when you click on the up-down arrows in the Category column.
Don’t know about a shortcut. Greg
March 13th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
I’ve just started using Moneydance last week. It’s been awesome apart from the loans section which doesn’t allow you to add transactions for fees, overdue notices etc. so am hanging out for Moneydance 2008. Top work guys!
March 13th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
A further note, I’ve been looking for the build 600 mods with respect to bug 908, but can’t find a spec detailing if it’s done or not…any ideas anyone?
http://moneydance.com/trac/ticket/908
March 15th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
(On Macintosh) It would be nice if the version/build number displayed in the file’s info dialog. So yours might look like “Moneydance 2008 (602)” or “Moneydance 2008 b602″ or “Moneydance 2008 v1.0.602″ or, or, or….
March 16th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Hi Andrew: The 600+ build are available at http://moneydance.com/preview/
Eric: Unfortunately we can’t get too specific in the Moneydance application’s “version” field because the auto-updates are done internally (ie they don’t change the application itself, only some of the code in it). The best way to get the detailed version information is to run Moneydance and then select the “about” menu.