|
Fixed |
Class |
Description |
|
8.00 |
Enh |
Version 8 is the first 32 bit version of
planEASe, with the following implications:
- We are no longer compatible with Windows
3.1
- Calculations are somewhat faster
- File Open/Save dialogs allow long filenames
and look like the standard Win95/98 dialogs.
- PlanEASe Assumption Sets now are "associated"
with planEASe (that's why they have the planEASe icon on them when viewed in Explorer
and the new Open/Save Dialogs), so if you doubleclick an Assumption Set, planEASe
will start, and load that Assumption Set.
- We have replaced all planEASe components
(grids, graphs, and the new word processor) with new 32 bit versions, which allows
many of the improvements in this version, and also poises planEASe for additional
enhancements in future versions.
|
|
8.00 |
Enh |
The installation program has been scrapped
in favor of the industry standard Wise Installation System, insuring proper registration
of all components and providing a convenient standard uninstall routine (either
access Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and choose
Remove and planEASe, or simply run "Unwise.exe" (aptly named),
located in the planwin directory. |
|
8.00 |
Enh |
Since the introduction of the half-period
rules for depreciation in 1986, we have allowed you to ignore (avoid) them by setting
the depreciation Method to the corresponding negative number (eg: -2 specifies Double
Declining Balance without the half-period rule). This treatment is not legal under
the current tax laws, but it let you experiment with the effect of these rules on
after tax returns. Now we have eliminated this treatment in favor of using the minus
number methods to specify ignoring the half period rule in the first (but not last)
period. This enables you to properly handle analysis of prospective holding of currently
owned properties, such as in Sale / Leaseback Analysis. |
|
8.00 |
Bug |
If you specified a holding period ending
in mid-month, such as 4.05 years, the Basic Analysis and all other computational
functions computed correctly, but the Sale Report reported the partial period debt
payment incorrectly so that the Sale Report values did not agree with the Sale values
in Basic Analysis. |
|
8.00 |
Enh |
We have added a "body" font availability
to all the graphs and pie charts. This font is the same font you specify for body
text in Page Setup. Thus, if you specify "Arial Narrow" and check the Italic box
for your body text in Page Setup (perhaps to fit more columns on the page), you
may choose "body italic" for a graph font and Arial Narrow Italic will be used in
displaying and printing the graph. |
|
8.00 |
Enh |
The Recent Files lists now remember files
on removable media, such as floppy disks, CD-ROMs, and CD-RW's |
|
8.00 |
Enh |
You may now Export any Graph or Chart as
a JPEG file. JPEG files are compatible with being inserted into HTML pages, making
it easy to post planEASe graphs on your website (read further for really exciting
news about web sites). |
|
8.00 |
Enh |
You may now export any Report (Grid) as HTML,
either on the clipboard or as a file. HTML retains the font and color settings in
your Page Setup when pasted into Word, Excel or other programs. Unfortunately, some
of these programs still do not fully implement HTML codes, so you may have to manually
set Row Height and Column Width. |
|
8.00 |
Enh |
The Help File has been re-edited and improved,
bringing it up to Windows 9x standards (with a new Table of Contents). We have also
added a "planEASe on the Web ..." option to the help menu, so you can access the
planEASe WebSite with all the tutorials and more from within planEASe. |
|
8.00 |
Enh |
Previously, if you wanted to print to a printer
that was not your default printer, you could request File/Print Setup.
Unfortunately, your choice of printer would not persist, so if you wanted the next
output to go to that (non-default) printer, you had to access File/Print Setup
again. Now we have implemented a "Session Printer" in planEASe. When you begin your
planEASe session, the Session Printer is set to your default printer. If you access
File/Print Setup and change to another printer, planEASe remembers this
new printer as your "Session Printer", and all output is written to that printer
until you again access File/Print Setup to change to another printer. Changing
the Session Printer does not affect your choice of the default printer, so if you
print from other software during your planEASe session, that software will print
to your default printer. |
|
8.00 |
Enh |
In Version 8, just like the new Microsoft Office 2000, you may "Save As Web Page"
any planEASe Report and/or Graph. You may then "View Web Page" to see the page(s)
in your browser and e-mail it/them to your colleagues (or post them on a web site).
As you have come to expect from planEASe, you have full color/font controls, commentary,
disclaimers, etc., but the real shocker is the stunning appearance of the pages.
We think they will revolutionize the communication of financial analysis in our
industry (and make a lot of money for you!!).
In Office 2000, Microsoft fixed their Office
97 bug that made it difficult to import planEASe reports and graphs. If you have
had such difficulties, we recommend that you update to Office 2000 to rectify the
problem. All versions of planEASe import correctly into Office 95 and Office 2000.
|
|
8.00 |
Enh |
Previously, you needed to use a vacancy rate
of 99.9999% for a vacant suite (Tenant) to have the suite (and vacancy and credit
loss) show up properly in the various reports of the Reporting Extension. This still
works, but you may now use 100% as well. |
|
8.00 |
Enh |
For users of the Monthly Extension
(especially developers) we have modified the graph routines in Income Statements
so monthly graphs of things like Capital Spending, Debt Draws, etc. are properly
labeled with months on the X Axis for Holding Periods of 24 months or less and Years
for longer holding periods. While we were at it, we also similarly modified the
monthly graphs in Basic, Detail and Lease Analysis. |
|
8.00 |
Enh |
In Sensitivity Analysis, we've added a
Compare Button for easy access to the new Sensitivity Analysis Comparison function
added in version 7.02. |
|
8.01 |
Bug |
On some printers, when printing Sensitivity
Analysis, the Specification (eg: "Price of Property versus Rate of Return after
Tax") would not print. Thanks to Joe Varacallo for the first report. Introduced
in 8.00 and fixed in 8.01. |
|
8.01 |
Bug |
When printing Pie Charts, the format always
defaulted to "Full Page Landscape" rather than remembering and defaulting to the
last format requested. Introduced in 8.00 and fixed in 8.01. |
|
8.01 |
Bug |
In Income and Annual Statements containing
values in the "Vacancy & Credit Loss" line, the Taxable Revenue, Ordinary Income
and Suspended Losses lines were mis-stated because the Taxable Revenue line erroneously
contained Gross Income values rather than Effective Income values. No other
values were mis-stated (including Cash Flow After Tax and all ratios,
returns and NPV's) . Thanks to Steve McNew for the first report. Introduced in 8.00
and fixed in 8.01. |
|
8.02 |
Bug |
When choosing to open new files and no file
was open, the default was "untitled" rather than blank Introduced in 8.00 and fixed
in 8.02. |
|
8.02 |
Bug |
In Lease Analysis, if you changed
any Square Footage amount and then exited Lease Analysis, planEASe would
offer to post the change(s) to your Assumption Set. While in many cases this was
successful, in some cases it caused irreparable damage to the Assumption Set. For
this reason we have eliminated the option. Thanks to Brad Vear for the report. |
|
8.02 |
Bug |
In Lease Analysis, the printed reports
for the individual leases lacked the vertical line column dividers. Introduced in
8.00 and fixed in 8.02. Thanks to Pummi Bais at NYU for the report. |
|
8.02 |
Bug /
Enh
|
The input process for entering a New RentRoll
has been improved, and the RentRoll is now smarter when computing the End Date for
a lease. |
|
8.02 |
Enh |
We have added "Save as Web Page" and "View
Web Page" capability to all of the Financial Utilities functions. This means all
reports and graphs throughout the planEASe product line now have this capability |
|
8.02 |
Bug |
When exporting a grid, if you chose to export
to a text file, you would be asked to save it as a JPEG File. Introduced in 8.00
and fixed in 8.02. Thanks to Fritz Wolff for the report. |
|
8.02 |
Bug |
In the Installment Sale Analysis (the RSA Model), if you entered a multi-page
loan and specified a new loan amount in one or more of the continuation pages, the
Installment Sale Report erroneously added the loan amounts to the Purchase Money
Note amount. The cash flows and NPV's in the basic analysis were not affected.
|
| 8.02 |
Enh |
In Sensitivity Analysis, when you run using
a dollar measure (NPV or AoW), we have added the option to view the results as $/SqFt
(or $/Unit) in addition to simply dollars. This is particularly useful when using
the new Compare capability to compare several leases with differing Square
Footage. This option is only shown if all the Assumption Sets being compared have
positive amounts entered for units or square footage. |
|
8.02 |
Bug / Enh |
On a very few (5 so far) machines, TitlePages
documents do not print properly. To fix this, we have added the capability to adjust
margins within the body text box of the printed page for TitlePages reports. Just
pull down the new File/Margins ... menu option in TitlePages. Thanks to
Deb Perr, Phil Woollcott, Richard LeBlanc, CCIM, Jim Murphy, and Brad Cox, CCIM
for their patience, cooperation, and good humor while we were researching this problem. |
|
8.03 |
Bug |
In Utilities/Cash Flow Analysis,
when AutoCalc was turned on and you copied the previous Cash Flow amount by using
the single or double quote character, the Cash Flow Report would not update properly.
Introduced in 8.00 and fixed in 8.03. Thanks to Dave Pinkerton for the report. |
|
8.03 |
Bug |
In Reports/Assumptions Report/Save As
Web Page, if you checked Show Page Notes and one or more Page Notes
contained a Blank Line or ended with a Blank Line, planEASe would report an "Overflow"
Error. Introduced in 8.00 and fixed in 8.03. Thanks to Joe Manausa for the report. |
|
8.03 |
Bug/
Enh
|
In Reports/Titlepages, if you requested
Insert/Image and chose either choice, you would be greeted with an error
message rather than an open dialog for the image file to insert. Caused by a glitch
in the new install program which placed the file ic32.ini in the Windows directory
rather than the Windows\System directory. To fix this you can simply move the file
to the Windows\System directory (for Win 95/98) or the Windows\System32 directory
(for Win NT/2000). Introduced in 8.00 and fixed in 8.03. Thanks to Jerry Conroy
for the report. At the same time, we have enhanced version 8.03 to Insert/Image
for JPEG files. |
|
8.03 |
Bug |
For Users with the Partnership Models,
File/Convert Assumptions worked 95% of the time, but at unpredictable times
would not save the converted Assumption Set after the Save Button was pressed. Introduced
in 8.00 and fixed in 8.03. Thanks to Chris Carlsen for the report. |
|
8.03 |
Bug |
If you changed printers during a session,
the new Session Printer routines introduced in version 8.00 would (rarely) say you
were printing to a new printer (that you chose), but would actually direct the output
to the old printer. As far as we can tell, this is a Windows problem, but we have
changed the Session Printer concept so that choosing a new printer in a session
now changes the Windows Default Printer to the newly chosen printer. This accomplishes
the same thing as the Session Printer concept, except that any printing from other
applications during your planEASe session will also be directed to the newly chosen
printer. At the conclusion of the planEASe session, the Windows Default Printer
is reset to its original value at the beginning of the planEASe session. Introduced
in 8.00 and fixed in 8.03. Thanks to Chuck Ciolino, CCIM for the report. |
|
8.03 |
Bug |
When you used a negative depreciable life
(as for Construction Period Interest) in Build-to-Suit analyses, the taxes in the
Sale Report were (slightly) mis-stated. The cash flows and taxes in all other areas
of planEASe were correct. Thanks to a good friend/user of planEASe who prefers anonymity. |