• Added portfolio specific settings to toolbar and file menu
• Added portfolio specific option to override country when importing dates and displaying foreign currency
• Moved default commission preference to portfolio specific settings
• Added warning popups for cases of missing or invalid fields when importing from CSV or QIF
• Added dialog to prompt for split ratio when importing stock splits from CSV files without split ratios
• Now properly handles case where stock split and sell transaction are input out of chronological order
• Totals row values now properly refreshing to zero after filter query results in no investments

Modifications for 1.1.1

• More robust checking for empty data fields during CSV import
• No longer crashing after removing or undoing the single remaining cash transaction
• Initial location of horizontal scroller of investment table is back on the left as expected
• Revert menu item is now grayed out for new, unsaved documents

Feature List

• Moderate GUI makeover
• Duplicate transaction detection
• Import progress indicator
• Import now runs concurrently
• Schwab CSV import support
• E*TRADE CSV import support
• Scottrade QIF import fixed
• ShareBuilder QIF import support
• Can abort import after individual transaction canceled
• Import now handles files containing OS-9 style line endings
• No longer unstable after undo
• Descriptive undo and redo menu items
• Can now undo entire import
• Can turn off automatic cash transfers in preferences
• Negative cash balance detection during cash transfers
• Enhanced date range filter with quarter, month, week, and day related presets
• Investment type filter now has non-cash option
• Investment filter settings now saved to preferences
• “Hide Filters” and “Hide Toolbar” added to View menu and saved to preferences
• Added View menu items as alternate commands for view switching and investment filters
• Added Transactions menu and alternate menu items for adding transactions
• Moved “Import…” from File menu to Transactions menu
• Replaced all occurrences of word “savings” with “interest-bearing”
• Fixed some minor Tiger bugs
• Various code improvements

User’s Guide and CSV File Tweaking

Be sure and check out the updated user’s guide. It it now available in PDF format directly from the application help menu. In fact the old help viewer style help has been replaced with the PDF, since it’s really the same content, but it looks much better as a PDF I think (the equations were really screwed up in the old help viewer version and it was a major hassle to convert it from LaTeX to HTML). At some point later I might create a simpler, quick help version and bring the help viewer option back again. But anyway, the user’s guide now contains an appendix section describing how to tweak CSV files from brokers that FolioCalc doesn’t support and try to get them to import successfully.

A Peek Into the Future

Many of you have requested stock dividend, short sales, and wash sale support. These features and more are in the works. Some of them may even show up in the next minor release (1.2). Hopefully that will be much sooner than six months from now!

Fixed Failed Import Bug

In the previous version, if you tried to import a file that was not in a CSV or QIF format that FolioCalc recognized, but it was close enough that it passed an initial header check, it would go on with the import, only putting out a few errors to the console but without popping up an error message and you would end up with only partial or no resulting transactions. Worse yet, if new transactions were entered manually after the import silently failed, they would not appear in the list. This unusable state would persist until FolioCalc was restarted again. All this has been fixed in 1.0.2. And FolioCalc is also more strict now about what files are allowed to be imported in the first place.

Complete Change List for 1.0.2

• The user’s guide now contains detailed instructions on how to download transaction files from the websites of several online brokers
• Errors during import will no longer prevent further transactions from being entered
• Invalid file checking during import is much more robust now
• Now prevents the user from selecting bundles such as applications when importing
• Rebuilt with latest eSellerate engine, which fixes a rare activation issue one user was seeing

There is now a new menu item under the help menu to launch the RhodoSoft support page in your web browser. It’s a nice shortcut when the URL is not handy.

Fixed revert bug

Some of you may have noticed that if you used the Revert to Factory Defaults button on the preferences panel, you would find that FolioCalc would come up in trial mode at the next relaunch, requiring the activation code to be entered again. Revert was clearing the activation code along with the rest of the values reset in preferences. That won’t happen now because the revert button has been removed in this release. Since there aren’t very many preference settings, I don’t think most people will miss it much. If for any reason you really do want to reset out preferences to factory settings, you can do that outside of FolioCalc by deleting the preferences file called com.rhodosoft.foliocalc.plist which resides in Library/Preferences off your home folder. Just be aware that doing that would require you to re-enter your activation code at the next FolioCalc launch and also would remove any custom window size and column sizes and ordering.

Added error code for rare activation failures

This is one most people hopefully will never notice. If there are any errors during activation that don’t fall into the common categories such as serial number typos or no internet connection, the error code from the eSellerate API will now be displayed with the message so that RhodoSoft support has more information to help pinpoint the problem.

• Enhanced QIF import for savings accounts to automatically create a new savings investment if no one currently exists with that name.
• The “Done” button on new transaction and preferences panels will now be grayed out if any fields are not filled in.
• Fixed a bug where the trailer row was not being refreshed when a table column was moved.
• Fixed a bug where URL redirect requests for stock data were not being handled correctly.

CSV files downloaded from Scottrade can now be imported. RhodoSoft now has broker accounts set up with Scottrade and E-Trade to be used for testing along with the Ameritrade and Fidelity accounts it has had for a while now. It turns out that E-Trade does not support either CSV or QIF but only QFX. FolioCalc will probably have support for QFX at some point but probably not until after the 1.0 version. So until then, E-Trade users can either use Quicken and export as QIF into FolioCalc or enter their transactions into FolioCalc manually.

Also QIF and CSV files in various non-ASCII text encodings can now be imported successfully.

A few changes were also made to improve the compactness of the column data. For example, currency values over a trillion and percentages over a million now display in scientific notation. This allows huge values to be more easily viewed and without requiring the column to be resized really wide to see them. Although most people could only dream of seeing currency values this huge (but perhaps in the case of some small valued currencies), percentages can get pretty big in the case of annualized return when the investment has not been held very long. Another improvement to the compactness of percentages is now the decimal point and digits after are not shown for whole numbers.

The stock ticker column in the stock view can now be edited. This may come in handy when a stock ticker changes for a particular company. Changing it once in the stock view will automatically update all the transactions and investment records that refer to that stock record to reflect the new ticker. You may still want to manually update the arbitrary label field for any investments that refer to the old stock ticker after a ticker change (unless you change your labels to refer to the company name or something else), or you could just ignore the investment label altogether since it’s just arbitrary text. Note that the stock ticker may be changed to a ticker that is already in use in the document (already shows up in another row in the stock table). In this case, the existing stock record will be deleted after moving all the investments referring to it to the newly edited stock record. This is to insure there is only one stock record per ticker.

We are getting close to a release candidate for FolioCalc. There are a few import file formats that still need to be tested, but thats about it. New feature ideas will probably not go into the 1.0 but may show up in 1.X releases as free upgrades if they are not too major. Then at a later date there may be a 2.0 which would include major new features and require a paid upgrade.