Labor Breakdown Dates

PROBLEM

When using version 3.9, Goldenseal loses dates entered into Labor Hours records that have a Category or Items breakdown. They will all end up with today's date, which wipes out any dates you may have entered.

NOTE-- This problem does not occur in Goldenseal 3.8 and earlier.

Caught By

User bug report.

Workaround

If you remove the Start Time and End Time columns, this problem goes away.

To do so, follow these steps:

1. Choose Custom Layouts from the Options menu, and choose Transactions from the submenu.
2. Enter Labor Hours into the Transaction popup field at upper left.
3. Enter Category into the Layout popup field at upper left.
4. Click on the Start column in the breakdown table.
5. Choose Delete Column from Table from the Edit menu.
6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 with the End column.
7. Choose Save from the File menu.
8. Enter Items into the Layout popup field at upper left.
9. Repeats steps 4 to 7.

Solution

We've fixed this problem for Goldenseal payroll software 4.0.

Technical Details

When we save time values, we need to do some fancy footwork to make sure that it doesn't erase the date (since they are both stored in the same date/time record). Unfortunately, we forgot to do that when we added the new Start and End columns.