Any crash test dummies download Clickforms 8?

[JSmith43]

Well, has anyone downloaded and tested CF 8 yet?

 

[Jan Roseberry]

Yes!

No problems! They have made the new UAD regulations for style and garages a seamless item.

Only flaw I found was decimal problem concerning subject style on page 1 with carryover to comparable grid.

Did 2 reports without a hitch.

 

[JTip]

Waiting for you to do it first JSmith.

I do have to say they did make the first UAD idiot proof. I'm sure it will be a smooth transition with CF.

Maybe tomorrow.

 

[JSmith43]

I made a fresh VM backup & with the encouraging words from Jan R, I'm all suited up & will also perform a crash test

By Friday the 13th! I may have feedback to add.

 

[Alpine]

No problems! Only flaw I found was decimal problem concerning subject style on page 1 with carryover to comparable grid.

Question: I encountered the same issue. The UAD/XML scan made me use a "1.00" for my one-level rambler, which appears as "DT1.00;Rambler" in the SCA grid. But when I use their F8 key to open the UAD formatting box for the comps, it automatically formats them without the decimal as: "DT1;Rambler", which of course, causes my subject and comps to be different, and warrants a "0" even though they're really the same.

When I tried to override the auto transfer of "Number of stories" from page one to the SCA grid, it wouldn't let me, so I had to change all the comps to "DT1.00;Rambler" to avoid the use of "0", which doesn't seem correct.

Thoughts?

 

[Jan Roseberry]

They'll have it fixed in no time!

I'm sure it's a programing error which was the only glitch I found.

They made Fannie/Freddie UAD updates so simple you didn't even have to read the stuff, just update their software! I've been a Clickforms user since they bought Soft Bytes (old DOS program) and probably this is the most impressed I've been.

 

[Alpine]

I ran into a major glitch today when revising a report I completed a couple weeks ago. The scan which creates the XML gave me "Critical Errors" for the subject section of the SCA grid. It erroneously stated that the 3 cells for "Sale or Financing Concessions" and "Date of Sale/Time" were wrong. They are necessarily blank, because the software doesn't even let you enter anything there. I couldn't override it, so called Tech support.

Although I was on hold for close to half an hour, when they answered, the guy was great and took all the time I needed. We wound up uninstalling the new version and reinstalling the previous one until they work the bugs out. He said it should be fixed by next week, and then these types of things will be "Warnings" not critical errors.

Aside from this obvious glitch, the new version can be an issue for revising older reports. I don't want to have to change the Design/Appeal, number of stories, and garage sections on reports that I completed weeks ago when a client only asks that I revise something minimal like adding a comment, etc. So for now, I'll stick with the earlier version until they issue an "all clear".

I'm not complaining, as Clickforms has been good to me. I'm just offering a heads-up...

 

[Jo Ann Meyer Stratton]

Revising an older report, where you won't be making any changes to a UAD required blank, shut the UAD compliance button off. Add your comments and save. Then turn UAD back on, create your new pdf and uad file.

I have the latest version of Clickforms and it is going very smoothly.

 

[Michael Boyd]

Printing

Since doing the last update from 12/20/2013 I can not print reports.

 

[JSmith43]

Since doing the last update from 12/20/2013 I can not print reports.

You mean, you cannot print them to PDF?

I was just about to update. It might take me a while longer now. Thanks for the tip.