Version 3.0 (NOV 3 2008)
Expanded Reporting: Completely redesigned Report Center that provides 12 new reports for data analysis with new report types to follow in later releases. Reports allow users to make customizations on what type of information will be outputted and allow users to have reports memorized for later access as well as the ability to export any report to an Adobe Acrobat PDF document.
Journals: New journal feature that allow text based records to be used for such things as operator logbooks , visitor logins, maintenance records etc. A journal record can be assigned to any group that was defined in PlantLog Admin and then be tagged with a entry type that identifies the category of the journal record. Users can use the PlantLog Desktop application to enter records as needed and can also modify the date and time to have the record reflect the time an actual event took place.
Plug-In Architecture: Plug-In architecture to allow the PlantLog software to extend past its core functionality by providing the ability for Vorpalware to develop client specific customizations such as custom reports for data analysis as well as custom synchronization behaviors for automatic data import/export to external database systems.
System Schedules: Ability to assign a recurring schedule to any system which then allows teams to be reminded when inspections or other activities are due. PlantLog Mobile will allow users to view only systems that are scheduled and currently due and a new Schedule Overview report provides an outlook of upcoming system due dates.
Subgroups: Ability to now define groups that are sub groups of a parent group for a finer level of data organization. Subgroups can extend to 3 levels below the root parent group.
New Embedded Database Engine: Completely new embedded SQL database engine to provide significantly faster data access speeds as well as robustness capabilities such as transactions and automatic rollbacks.
Automatic Update: New automatic update mechanism to vastly improve the time required in updating the PlantLog solution to a higher version. Update process now requires only a single program to be executed, which will then propagate the update to all PC workstations and PDA's that run the PlantLog software.
Subscription Based Licensing: Ability for new customers to license the PlantLog software solution on a monthly subscription basis rather than purchasing a one time perpetual license.
219: Systems that are set to Inactive status within PlantLog Admin will not appear on the PDA devices until they are reactivated.
174: Ability to independently specify a date range when export data to Microsoft Excel, which is separate from the global date range filter.
166: Fixed issue that could sometimes cause a duplicate system record to be inserted into the database.
162: Renamed all references to the word "Unique ID" to simple be "Barcode".
103: Removed option in Export to Excel dialog that allows user to change the name of the worksheet. Worksheets are always named with the System or Journal name
96: Added more detailed output to indicate the progress of a mobile device sync progress as well as graphical progress bars to show overall progress.
75: new option in Export to Excel dialog that will show any exception values in red font when exported to Microsoft Excel file.
60: Removed the "Use Permissions" option found in the User Manager dialog of PlantLog Admin. All users must now login to any PlantLog component to ensure accountability.
57: New 'Comments' window will appear whenever an Admin user edits an existing system or journal record. This ensures user will make a note as to the reason for the edit. Comments will be displayed when viewing the record change logs.
53: Added 'LogOut' toolbar button to PlantLog Admin and PlantLog Desktop to permit users to log out of the component without needing to exit and re launch the component.
46: Newly created Journal Records are automatically highlighted if the current journal group is in view.
44: Change logs available for Journal Records that have been edited by an Admin user.
43: Moved Status Bar to the bottom of PlantLog Admin and PlantLog Desktop. The Status Bar provides additional information about the currently selected object.
42: Ability to export Journals to Microsoft Excel file.
39: When copying a system or system item, the copy dialog will blank out all of the required fields to reduce backspacing and thus speed up data entry.
37: Items that are copied form another item within a system are automatically highlighted.
28: Find dialog in PlantLog Desktop now allows one to search numerical values based on exact matches (=), less than/equal to (=) criteria's.
24: Double clicking on a system item row will now bring up the editor window for that item.
19: Improved printing to include a header section that identifies what system or journal is shown.
13: Support for specifying elements of a Selection Input to be Exception values. Records values that are deemed Exceptions will appear in red when shown in PlantLog Desktop and will also be listed in the various Exception reports.
7: Ability to export all reports to Adobe PDF file format.
