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Microsoft Forecaster 7.0 Service Pack 5 (SP5) is available. You can install Microsoft Forecaster 7.0 SP5 on any computer that is running Microsoft Forecaster 7.0. This article includes a list of the problems that are corrected in Microsoft Forecaster 7.0 SP5. https://mbs.microsoft.com/customersource/northamerica/Forecaster/downloads/service-packs/MSD_Forecaster7ServicePack5 Problems that are corrected in Microsoft Forecaster 7.0 Service Pack 5 312625 - Error displaying capital and detail report when using Allow drilldown to capital detail 315158 - Deleting pay type associated from salary grade creates orphaned records 320795 - Current users list doesn't work correctly on SQL Server 2005/2008 321729 - The Multi-row tab doesn't show the lines (rows), if an input set name is longer than 24 characters 325800 - Start Period and End Period can't be adjusted in HR Master after another field is changed 344372 - Entering capital item into invalid period and deleting causes duplicate/orphan records 362922 - Excel Add-in returns no results when the optimization factor is 0 363919 - Single Row Input with 'Suppress Zero Lines on Input' creates difference from Multi-row 363939 - When using Human Resources Annually with regular allocations not selected, headcount is not updated for hourly employees 366414 - Reports where lines are the departments show a zero balance 367077 - Copy plan wizard for HR Details does not correctly calculate allocation 368241 - System needs to keep deleted employees shaded while changes the "Show Allocation As" option 368800 - Importing HR changes clears existing data in HR master but not in HR input 370981 - Improve CALCREV processing performance 376106 - Fixed benefit does not calculate evenly for hourly employees 378602 - FTE not calculated correctly for employees distributed between multiple departments when specifying different employee options 381253 - Running capital task on input set with historic periods causes results to shift the number of historic periods defined 383592 - When reassigning an employee to a new department, the value in the Increase Period 2 field is not updated in the new department 390352 - Allocation lost when reassigning an employee from two or more departments into one using the reassign window 403235 - Error: "ExpressLink encountered a problem attempting to submit data to Microsoft Forecaster." when a user name contains a period 403641 - Decimal values do not appear on the single row tab 404570 - Temp tables do not get dropped on SQL Server 2000 when the username is numeric 410614 - When prompting for period and using a selection sub-menu in a report, users have to select period twice before the report will display 415674 - If a user defined benefit exceeds 5,000 characters, Forecaster will close unexpectedly when trying to select it 419972 - Enabling Auto-translate causes Forecaster to stop responding when adding employees in HR master 440395 - If many options are created for a user defined benefit, Forecaster may close unexpectedly when trying to select an option in HR input 453998 - The destination account and the contra account can't be the same when two or more allocations are created and accumulate is used 465875 - When sorting columns in the Multi-row tab, incorrect values can be created if a @LOOKUP calculation is also used 466855 - Enabling Auto-translate causes Forecaster to stop responding when importing employees through HR import 467705 - Forecaster closes unexpectedly 469946 - If an employee form a previous input set salary grade doesn't exist in a new input set, Forecaster closes unexpectedly when adding the employee 470760 - Specifying a color for calculated columns doesn't apply the color 473830 - If Add as FTE is not selected when adding an employee in HR master, Forecaster closes unexpectedly 484897 - Missing revenue detail after running a CALCREV task on SP4 484693 - Human Resource accounts incorrect after reassigning an employee from the HR Master screen 484835 - Human Resource accounts incorrect after changing Salary Grade from the HR Master screen 484847 - Unable to type into a user defined field benefit field
To obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Forecaster 7.0, visit the following Microsoft Web site.More Information
For information on known issues with Service Pack 5, see KB article 2828728.