====== CATS 2411 - Release Notes ======

April 2024. The April update provides a new way to quickly enter purchase and sale contracts along with some quality of life improvements in other areas of CATS.

<color blue>**[NEW]**</color> **Create new contracts in a batch.** \\ Access the Batch Add feature from the Contracts section of the main menu. \\ {{:cats:releasenotes:pasted:20240416-230513.png}} \\ The new Batch Add contract feature allows users to quickly enter a series of contracts (or a single contract with multiple items) from one screen. All major details can be configured from this screen and the contract confirmation letter can be generated automatically upon completion.

<color blue>**[NEW]**</color> **Copy attached documents from another traffic screen.** \\ Users can use the update tool on the traffic screen to copy attached documents from one screen to another.

<color green>**[IMPROVEMENT]**</color> **Better customization for shipping instructions and other traffic documents.** \\ The shipping instruction interface has been overhauled to better support a wider range of content. The shipping instruction note fields also now support custom labels. Using new keywords ''{Country}'', ''{Category}'', ''{Product}'' in templates will automatically insert those details from the contract.

<color green>**[IMPROVEMENT]**</color> **Reduced prompts for creating price fixing letter.** \\ The confirmation prompt when creating the price fixing letter has been eliminated.

<color green>**[IMPROVEMENT]**</color> **Production can now copy traffic details from input to output.** \\ When creating a re-bagging entry, CATS will automatically copy over the traffic detail from the input location screen to the newly created output location. The details include the container level information as well.

<color red>**[FIX]**</color> **Fixes for the new batch invoice dialog.** \\ Improved sorting behavior and filters as well as fixes for reporting on large number of invoices. 

<color red>**[FIX]**</color> **Use custom headings for note fields.** \\ Using a custom heading on a note field in the report designer no longer prints a blank column heading. {{tag>"release notes"}}