Newswire
Winter 2016
What’s Inside
Tronia News & Events ............... 2
2016 Release Schedule .............. 3
Best New Feature ...................... 3
Config Options for Spring ........... 4
Tip: Pre-Season AgCollect Reporting.................... 5
Around the Corner .................... 6
From the Prairie Postcards Collection, Peel Library, University of Alberta
What Winter? - From your Editor—Debbie Ewing
If you’ve been following along, you know from past newsletters I
am not a big fan of winter. This winter, at least on the prairies, seems
more like the winter that wasn’t. Without the extreme cold and the
extra effort required to deal with tons of snow, it’s been actually
kind of enjoyable. That’s the idea behind the start of a continuing
series of articles on config options - there are so many ways to
customize agrē to work the way you do, you’re bound to find a few
that reduce your workload too.
- Debbie
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Tronia News & Events
CAAR Winners
Ultra HD 4K Smart TV
Lynn—the Rack
Fitbit Charge
Frank—Orchard Transport
Robert—Pineland Co-op
Lesson learned this year: set up the new display for the first time in
advance so we don’t spend 4 hours figuring out how to put it
together on the tradeshow floor. Donna’s new backdrop looked
great and although the agrēMobile desk didn’t arrive with all of its
parts, Anita and Dee channeled their inner Red Green and it turns
out there’s almost nothing they can’t fix with duct tape and zip
ties. If you didn’t have a chance to stop by and say hi, please make
a point to come see us next year in beautiful Banff.
Kelly completes her first ½ marathon in Las Vegas in support of Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada
CAAR Saskatoon 2016
Roster Additions
Rookie CSCs Kelly Landry &
Keri Bauer were drafted
by Team Tronia in
February.
Sebastian & Laura in Cologne for
Christmas
Find the agrēMan Contest Winners
Roxanne—GJ Chemical
Shelly—CMI Ag Ltd.
Spring Hours coming ...
It’s a bit early yet for the
start of extended spring
hours (although scouting
has already begun) but
we’ll keep you posted.
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agrē 2016 Release Schedule and New Features
2016 agrē Release Schedule
Continuing with three releases a year, agrē will be tentatively updated in:
February (agrē 2.16.01 was released on the 23rd)
June
October
agrē 2.16.01 Best New Feature
View all that’s new in the Release Notes in online Help.
Report Criteria Favourites
Running reports with customized
criteria just got a whole lot faster!
Setup the report criteria to get the
results you want and save it as a
favourite. The next time you need to
run the same report the same way,
choose your Favourite from the drop
down menu and all the criteria are
reset to the saved values.
Report Favourites (introduced in a previous release, but plays nicely
with the Criteria Favourites.)
Flag the reports you run every day as
one of your Report Favourites and
they’ll be listed right at the top to make
them easy to find and fast to run.
Like Report Criteria Favourites, they’re
saved per user so everybody can set
their own list of faves.
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agrē Config Options for Spring
There are many ways to configure agrē to better follow your particular business practices - you
just need to know where to look. Many Company level options can be overridden at the
Location or User level if different users follow different processes. Remember that most config
options are just defaults that can be changed on the fly.
Report Options
It can be very annoying when customers are
lined up 3 deep and you’re being prompted
to preview each and every invoice and you
don’t print invoices! Instead of punishing
that NO button every time, you can tell agrē
to stop asking. And if you always use the
same criteria to print Loadout Tickets,
there’s no point confirming them every time
you print one of those either.
Blending Options
If you blend the same way all the time,
set that as the Default Calculation
Method.
If you start your blends from Make a
Blend, and all you do is blend, you may
prefer to Keep Blend Window open
after Save so you can crank out one
after another.
If Agrotain is your most-used Additional
Product, set the default rate to MT per
Product.
Set the Blend History to go back as far
as you need it to, and to show blends on
only the transactions you use.
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agrē AgCollect Tip: Prepaid Product on Work Orders
There’s still snow on the ground, it’s too early
for growers to pick up product, and AgCollect
is asking about my Prepaid Sales. Nobody has
AgCollect sales at this time of year! How can I
report on “sales to be”?
That’s an easy one! Product that’s been prepaid
lives on work orders, and you can find those
values easily with the Work Order Detail data
export.
File > Exports > Data
As this is export is not specific to AgCollect,
selecting Any Manufacturer will include
results from all manufacturers - not just the
AgCollect ones - but you don’t need to do
anything differently. AgCollect will filter out
any irrelevant data.
Read more about EMR/AgCollect reporting in
the AgCollect whitepaper.
Dee working hard at CAAR
Around the Corner in 2015/6
Friday, March 25
Good Friday - Tronia closed
Monday, March 28
Easter Monday - Tronia closed
Monday, May 23
Victoria Day - Tronia closed
Wednesday, June 22
agrē 2.16.02
tentative release date
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Congratulations to 2015 Tronia Scholarship Winners
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Tronia Systems Ltd. is pleased to continue our
scholarship program for students in the
Agribusiness sector. Two (2) $1,000
scholarships are awarded annually to students
who demonstrate outstanding leadership
abilities through school and community
involvement while maintaining a superior
academic standing.
It was a very difficult decision this year. We had
four applicants with excellent credentials and
there was an unprecedented amount of
discussion before the finalists were chosen.
Congratulations to Deanna Ringelberg of
Troy, ON, and Myles Butt of Hughenden, AB
who were each awarded a $1,000 Scholarship
from Tronia Systems. They were awarded the
scholarship based on their outstanding
leadership qualities, community involvement
and academic standing.
You can download applications for this year’s
scholarships from our Giving Back webpage.
The deadline to apply is
Friday, October 14, 2016.
Kelly’s fur-babies Barkley & Ellie