T1 Dependant form

Bug Reports
1

The Dependants form seem to behave differently lately. Whenever I open an existing T1 or (carry-forward), and open the Dependants form, it shows no dependants:

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However, the dependants ARE THERE - I just have to hit the back button for them to show up. In previous TaxCycle releases, the Dependants form opened to the first dependant. So, this new behaviour has caused much confusion - thinking that I had missed adding dependants in prior years, and thus adding them all again - and even having to ask the client for all the details again. Then discovering the tax return or other reports showing double the amount of credits/benefits than they should, so I have to go back and delete the duplicate dependants.

Was there a reason to change the previous behaviour of this page? Can we go back to that? Or at least show the number of existing dependants at the top, like it does when you are viewing one of the existing dependants (ā€œ1 of 3ā€ etc).

2

I am using version 15.1.60757.0 and donā€™t have any issue like this. Everything works fine.

3

Thanks @msbuttar

Maybe something strange on my main computer? Iā€™ll test on a few other computers. I am running the latest version here, too.

4

Agreed, when I CF from 2024, when I search DEP, a new DEP shows first instead of an existing DEP; I believe that is different from previous years; the same is with search for motor vehicle for T2125, a new motor vehicle shows first instead of existing from previous year.

5

Thanks @anni

Proves Iā€™m not the only one seeing this.

6

I noticed this yesterday as well Iā€™m running the most recent version and it did that on a new T1 for a client. I didnā€™t think much of it since I had recently created the dependent so I knew he was there.

7

Thanks Nezzer, let me look into this one!

8

This is really frustrating! I hade both situations in the last two days: missing car info c/f and dep c/f.

What a waste of time! If it wasnā€™t brokeā€¦. why fix it?

9

Mine is doing the same.

10

Just trying to confirm the root problem hereā€¦ I think itā€™s that when you type ā€œF4ā€ and then ā€œDepā€ itā€™s taking you to a new dependent instead of the first one.

If thatā€™s the case, weā€™ve fixed that for next release. If there is something else, please provide some detail so that we can be sure to solve whatever is not working.

11

Yes @Cameron thatā€™s it. Not sure how else Iā€™d get to the ā€œDepā€ form, but yes - via ā€œF4ā€ - thatā€™s how Iā€™m always doing it.

12

Courtesy of @Elizabeth , load this into your templates folder and set it as category ā€˜informationā€™

T1TY2025.Dependant table.taxcycletemplate (3.2 KB)

13

Thatā€™s exactly what I did. F4 - Dep.

14

Before I do that, can I ask why? What does it do?

15

It gives you a nice list of the dependents already entered

16

Cameron, it also behaves this same way for the ā€œMotorā€ form, always takes me to a new blank one rather than the first populated one. Please fix that as well.

17

Itā€™s all the same fix. Itā€™s a google style search that weights the results. Iā€™ve reduced the weighting of new forms so that existing forms will be preferred.

With the new versionā€¦

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18

Thank you. This will be a great help to us all.

We truly appreciate how you are always striving to make Taxcycle the best Canadian tax program (IMO).

19

Best support in the business ā€“ thank you!

20

When can we expect the new version - this is very frustrating to deal withā€¦.