Version History

mSupply v4.03 (28 May 2019)

Version 4.03 of mSupply has now been released

New Features

  • OpenLMIS Integration
    • mSupply now integrates with OpenLMIS, giving countries using OpenLMIS a seamless migration path to transition to mSupply
  • DHIS2 Integration
    • mSupply is now able to send selected data to DHIS on a user-defined schedule
    • Contact Sustainable Solutions for information on setting up DHIS2 integration
  • Online Dashboard with Grafana
    • The mSupply Dashboard has been replaced from the ground up using two open-source tools
      • PostgreSQL for data warehousing and aggregation
      • Grafana for rendering and powerful configuration of dashboards completely online through a modern interface allowing custom postgreSQL queries by power users
  • Reports
    • New ‘Save Template’ function added for a number of report types
      • Report types include: Current stock, Stock on date, Item usage, Item slow movers, Expiring items, Expiring items vs cover, Transactions
      • Users can then quickly view the report using these saved filters & settings via the menu bar Report > Run report templates option
      • Further options available via the menu bar Report > Manage report templates
      • There is the ability to sync these report templates to remote sites, allowing standardised reporting across the organisation
    • Improvements made to the Consumption Per Facility report
  • Programs (Vertical Program Functionality)
    • New and existing Item Master Lists can be set to act as Programs
    • Program visibility managed by existing store tag system
    • Define order types on a Program
      • Requisitions to the program must use an available order type
      • Order types can be limited to a period schedule, with a set amount of orders per period and max number of lines
    • Regimen data collection can be configured for entry on both mobile and desktop sites doing requisitions to a Program
    • Stores using Programs can make stock takes for a particular Program
    • Program based reports added and can be customised
    • The above are also all supported on mSupply Mobile v2.3.0 and above
  • Stocktake reasons
    • Stocktake lines can now use centrally defined reasons to explain discrepancies
    • Reporting based on stocktake line reasons added
    • Supported by stocktakes in both mSupply Desktop and mSupply Mobile
  • Requisitions
    • Requisitions now show lead time
    • Requisition extra info section now displays customised AMC formulae
    • Requisition Reasons
      • Requisition lines can now use centrally defined reasons to explain deviations from suggested (AMC based) quantities
      • Reporting based on requisition line reasons added
      • Supported by requisitions in both mSupply Desktop and mSupply Mobile
  • Prescription Payment Handling and Patient Credit
    • When configured, mSupply stores in dispensing mode can now do payment handling
    • Patients can add credit to their account to be used for paying prescriptions
    • Prescriptions have basic integration for receipt printers (80mm width)
  • Insurance
    • Administrators can now add insurance providers in mSupply
    • Users can add insurance schemes to patients, setting the discount on prescriptions (0-100%)
  • Other
    • Patient type can now be selected for payments
    • Allow Responsible officer to be set per user basis and as well as for user groups
    • Drug registration items now able to be filtered by VEN categories in the Drug Registration module
    • Localisation added to patient editing window tabs
    • Master list importing function now includes prices
    • Ordering logic for calculating suggested orders/tenders now able to take expiring stock on hand into account
    • Stock transfers/customer invoices: warning added about needing to finalise
    • Supplier Invoices > summary by item – new columns added for claimed and requested quantities

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Bug Fixes

  • Purchase Orders
    • Outstanding Purchase order lines Price ext is partially shown in landscape A4 #2395
    • Purchase order line may be hidden after you confirm a PO #2165
    • Purchase Order to another store was generating a requisition with wrong request amount #2201
    • Purchase orders: deleted purchase order numbers needed to be re-used #2223
  • Reports
    • Pick list report didn’t show customer name and records display in multiple pages #2784
    • Report > Item and stock > Current Stock… > Each Batch with Prices [option] – Report failed to show #2304
    • In Ordered Item Report “Price ext (local)” column showed an error #2234
    • Sorting problem with location report resolved #2268
    • Supplier invoice > Summary_landscape_no_logo report didn’t display properly over multiple pages #2385
    • Summary landscape consolidated items report printing resolved #2450
    • Some template report pop-up windows could go to the back when opened from template manager #3124
    • Running a cross tab report for a quarter period error resolved #2160
    • Supervisor Mode – Reports > Purchase Orders > expanded store list fixed #2217
    • Ability to print when report definition contained “&” character resolved #2232
  • Requisitions
    • Requisition: text didn’t show how many records were filtered out #2375
    • Requisition/Internal order input window – filtering and deleting corrected #2426
    • Internal order detail view: it was possible to make requisitions to own store #2801
    • Customer current stock on hand column shows unverified values in the Requisition #2383
    • Could edit store code text on internal order #2398
    • Viewing details on a requisition could leave you unable to close the window #2323
  • Master Lists
    • Form did not update when master list descriptions were edited #2816
    • Couldn’t add a non-visible item #3217
    • Item could become visible even if it did not belong to a master list, where item visibility was controlled by master list for that store #2164
  • Stocktakes
    • Were potentially able to enter negative values into a stock take line #2507
  • Forms
    • Could not print Multiple forms even if the forms were set as “Multiple” #2901
  • Invoices
    • Customer invoice and prescriptions number reused were controlled by the wrong preference #2869
    • Customer Show invoices > Find dialog > Complex find button : search did not respect Store Joins #2680
    • Items added to customer invoices through the ‘Add from BOM’ button could have the wrong quantities assigned #2278
    • Customer invoice > Print it with waybill form – export to Excel fixed #2273
    • Supplier Invoice – Print barcode labels were chopped off #2384
    • Supplier Invoice – Print barcode labels should only be visible when “We use barcode scanners” preference on #2384
    • Supplier invoice copy to clipboard had a non-intuitive icon #2205
    • Supplier invoice print out wasn’t displaying logo #2331
  • Other
    • Aggregator was not running on server #3048
    • Improved upgrade code v3.85 to v4.02 #2295
    • Improved upgrade from v4.00 to v4.01 #2256
    • Fixed possible error during start-up of v4.02 single user/server it the application was unregistered #2345
    • The mSupply registration could be deleted accidentally by clients #2406
    • MySQL Plugin references were not correctly disabled #2224
    • User input OK button was not saving some details correctly #2334
    • Goods received lines could be saved without location #2420
    • French translation for creating a new user/new user group corrected #3013
    • Customer stock history screen updated #2188
    • Goods received note fixed for Consignment Received report #2310
    • Goods received line remaining quantity wasn’t taking account of other GRs #2416
    • Stock window hide print barcode button fixed #2454
    • Store list updating corrected when adding new stores #2194
    • Store selection was resetting when changing synchronisation tab sync type #2206

Plus minor bug fixes

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v4.02 (7th Feb 2019)

New Features

  • DHIS2 Integration
    • District Health Information System (v2) is the world standard for collating health data. mSupply is now able to send selected data to DHIS on a user-defined schedule.
    • Contact Sustainable Solutions for information on setting up DHIS2 integration.
  • Barcoding!

Bug Fixes

  • Report type requisition values weren’t able to be saved when sorting the a list column [2290, 2288]
  • Supplier invoice printing issues: logos were not printed on Summary Portrait & Summary Landscape forms, and the report printed over multiple lines [2331]
  • Editing Users: In certain situations the OK button was not saving certain details [2334,2336]
  • V400 server: The Rest API was failing to respond after a server re-start [2337]
  • Upgrade from v400 to v401: The User permission “Login…… as Desktop user” wasn’t enabled as an option [2259]
  • Requisition forms: failed to copy requisition custom data for stores whose store mode is of type “report” [2239, 2238]
  • Error in Report > Purchase Order > Ordered Item – ‘Price ext (local)’ column [2234]
  • Our automated build system wasn’t able to build v4.01 clients [2235]
  • Fixed an error while trying to make all names visible to a store through the store input > visibility tab [2174, 2175]
  • The store selection was lost when changing synchronisation tab sync types [2206]
  • Store list updated incorrectly after adding new store [2194]
  • Multi-store-Purchasing: Adding Purchase Order Lines threw an error [2157]
  • Purchase order lines (with location) disappeared after the PO was confirmed [2165]
  • `Expected delivery date` was disabled after a `Shelf location` field was assigned in the Purchase order lines window even when `Expected delivery date must be chosen` preference was turned on [2166]
  • Cross tab transactional quarterly reports produced an error [2161, 2160]
  • Preferences > Custom fields > setting “list” options for store wasn’t working [2146, 9169]
  • Label printing to USB only worked if printer name was called “ZDesignerEPL” [2143, 2144]
  • Newly added printer didn’t show up in printer list [2141,2142]
  • Placeholder lines could have sell price & price extension values greater than zero, which also generated incorrect transactional totals/subtotals [2352]
  • Supervisor Mode – Reports > Purchase Orders > expanded store list > clicking on a single store made all the stores disappear [2217]
  • Could save GR lines without location despite pref “Locations must be entered on goods receipt” [2420]
  • Remove Remote plugin SRPro Convert [2410, 2413]
  • mSupply registration could be wiped by client (should only be handled on server startup) [2406]
  • Kits: Bulk item rows were being merged – only need to merge Kit Ingredient rows [2289, 2277]
  • Custom quarterly report – fixed issues managing batches [2173, 2178]
  • Custom form – issue experienced when printing Supplier Invoice (SI) using unpacking SI form [2177, 2176]
  • Requisiton Report wasn’t showing region or township [2328]

Plus minor bug fixes

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v4.01 (17 Dec, 2018)

New Features

Version 4.01 is our biggest release in several years.
There are several significant features:

  • Change to 64 bit architecture. This is the biggest internal change to mSupply in a decade. It means:
    • Much faster operations – some reports are 10 times as fast
    • Ability to use RAM > 2 Gb for caching, which facilitates the increase in speed
    • Better support for modern operating systems
    • Version 4 (and following) WILL NOT RUN on 32 bit systems – please check here before upgrading
  • Much improved internal orders from one store to another:
    • There is a new “internal order” form and logic for placing orders from one store to another. This improves workflows, allows better capture of unmet demand, and is much faster [8791]. View the user guide here
    • If you still use Purchase Orders for internal ordering, that’s still possible, but in the supplying store a requisition is now made, allowing you to easily supply the order over multiple customer invoices. When the stock is received in the requesting store, a goods receipt is still made, but pricing information now flows through correctly. View the user guide here
  • Days out of stock, Stock on hand and Average monthly consumption (AMC) are now pre-calculated using a DHIS2 style aggregation table. Many reports now run much faster.
  • We have two new web applications
    • The Stock web app allows you to quickly view stock in a warehouse from a phone, tablet or laptop. View the user guide here
    • The Authorisation web app means that if managers or heads of department need to approve receipts, supplies or orders, they can do so from their phone or computer. [8919]. View the user guide here
  • Translation into Khmer language.
  • Full support for Unicode input into fields.
  • Email notifications: if you want to run a report on a schedule and email it to a user or group of users, mSupply can now do this. If there are multiple reports for the same user, they’ll be put into a single Excel spreadsheet as different workbooks. [8794]. View the user guide here

There’s some minor features too:

  • User permission report – Spin the store names to 90 degrees [8444]
  • Cambodia: Response requisition have the requested quantity filled out automatically [8889]
  • Item name: increased to 255 characters [9060]
  • Stock take: Creating inventory adjustment when not enough stock: We re-enabled our previous easy options [8811]
  • Kits importing PO – Management of interactive importing spreadsheet process [8713]

Bug Fixes

  • Purchase order > Internal requisition: The supplier invoice in the receiving store misses out on the price info [8913]
  • Running a transactional cross tab report generated an error [9143]
  • Reports > Item List: Item Location column displayed blank for items which had location set [9166]
  • Stock take > Input form: Stock take number replaced with spare label [9120]
  • Good Receipt: Add Item table did not show auto calculated total quantity [9048]
  • With some rare situations, it was possible for an invoice line to be linked to the one item when the batch itself is linked to the different item [8429]
  • Item > input form: Adding/Updating Bulk shelf location did not save in the database [9167]
  • Editing quick reports from the report management list on 64 bit threw an error [9099]
  • Solomon islands custom PO report failed for item with “&” in the name [9130]
  • Authorisation: Inventory adjustments required authorisation [9034]
  • On sync: Creating a Repack transaction failed to send the associated lines to the desired store on Cloud [9095]
  • User tags: the type-ahead list of tags was only generated when loading the user list- instead of the user “input” form method [9050]
  • Remove [users]“input” > permissions(3) tab > can view the dashboard pref (and assoc code) [8494]
  • Requisition MOS fields [9067]
  • Customisation code for Cambodia wasn’t added to customization_check code [9052]
  • alert_display new line/line feed “\n” didn’t work in v16 [8942]
  • V4.00 Dashboard looks to be down. We can’t even login either locally or on to a live server [8995]
  • Stock on Date report in Supervisor Mode produced erroneous results [8835]
  • Internal orders: when editing the number of months, only the calculated quantity changed – not the requested quantity [8941]
  • File > Import > Locations… Failed to import location with parent.id attached [8688]
  • Some 4D quick reports were not updated to our latest structure [8986]
  • Stock take sheet: Items were printing over multiple pages instead of fitting to a single page [8992]
  • Report > Item & Stock > Days out of stock: Items printed over multiple pages and wasn’t excel friendly [8994]
  • Supplier invoice printout: Transaction lines printed over multiple pages [9001]
  • Goods Receiving module broken: Stores without Goods Receiving Auth Not handled effectively [9016]
  • Goods Received line: Batch and expiry failed to update [9028]
  • Myanmar Chai: Had error regarding lack of of SRP report [9041]
  • mSupply has gone “spare” [8907]
  • Custom fields: When adding custom_data fields in Preferences these shouldn’t show on [Store]input Custom fields [8880]
  • Merging the name via the method “name_merge_process” did not create a sync record [9088]
  • Dashboard double click to edit a report was not working [9053]
  • Dashboard was not showing on interface: missing from structure [9051]
  • Receiving item: Adding new donor, the added donor did not show in the list [9059]
  • Finalising an internal order: had an unnecessary prompt to delete lines with zero quantity [8906]
  • Goods received: wasn’t able to finalise [9061]
  • For internal requisitions, the generated GR was incorrectly retaining the location from the CI [8954]
  • Dashboard of Solomon Islands had problems with report “Sync sites last connection date” [8729]
  • Strange trigger code occurred on pref_blob [8946]
  • Stores in dispensary mode: attempted to print dispensary labels for normal CI invoice to facilities [8830]
  • Customer invoice authorisation store pref also applies to dispensary prescription but the form was missing the required checkbox [7689]
  • Internal Orders: Newly created internal orders didn’t show confirm button [8893]
  • Remote authorisation: Finalise behaviour for CIs didn’t match SI behaviour [8963]
  • The stock transfer CI invoice was unable to be duplicated [8887]
  • Importing Item and Stock – Stock line was not being assigned with a Supplier “Inventory”. [8989]
  • Running a suggested order quantities report > Order ID was showing the UUID instead of an Order number [8984]
  • Myanmar MAM > Monthly MAM report – Report data wasn’t synchronised – the values were good but not showing in the right place [9012]
  • SRP > Printing a Good received > Failed to show all lines (showed the last line only) [9033]
  • Goods received: not able to be finalised [9015]
  • Transaction report Window > Date Chooser DDL > Failed when selecting “this half year/ Previous Half year” [8776]
  • v4.10 Remote Authorisation: ‘Entered by’ field in Customer Invoice window changed when on Authorisation tab [8860]
  • Running a under permission report > Generated an error [8846]
  • Internal order: at the sub store: The finalise button gave an alert about deleting non entered lines [8890]
  • CI transaction input window > Username field: was changed when clicked on Authorisation tab [8876]
  • Upgrading a pre v385 data file to v4 called obsolete GMA plugin and generated startup error [8903]
  • Authorisation web app to be validated on different browsers [8917]
  • Tender: [tender]input form, on some of the pages the listbox needed to have horizontal scroll bars turned on [8563]
  • Goods Received Note List Form had a “Spare” Header [8881]
  • Good received > Finalize: Even when there was no item to receive it could still be finalised [6873]
  • Runtime error was adding patient from Choose Patient.. Window [8800]
  • Sync / scheduler was stalling [8905]
  • Print a customer invoice form was failing to option a print window dialogue [8895]
  • PDFs failed to generate on windows installed mSupply server [8864]
  • Finalise on customer invoices w/ authorisation was not working [8863]
  • Allowing a custom field to get shown on SI > Double clicking the SI > generated error [8838]
  • Customer invoice: Finalising a ci on hold does not finalise the invoice but it does not warn the user [5527]
  • On a stock adjustment the alert saying that you cannot confirm an un-authorized invoice should have come before the confirm message [7652]
  • Setting item visibility to match master lists hid ‘Pack to One’ button on [store]input form [8744]
  • Tenders: needed logging for tender status changes [8711]
  • From printing option window: PDF file on disk failed [8831]
  • Switching from PagePro to Super Report….. [8792]
  • PNG Cloud data: error occurred when viewing the Badilli collector store [8725]
  • Registering from mSupply client MAC application failed [8386]
  • Default query: did not have the requisition table as a query option [8465]
  • No icon for installed mSupply client [8472]
  • Duplicates_find was no longer fixing ID’s [7412]
  • Item input: When dragged – form did not format properly [8454]

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