FAQ |
5.0.3000 Program Updates |
Added
Passives on Terminal Server Environment - allows passives to be setup on a
server and setup individually per each user.
Passive Clients - allows an active to run additional microscans as passives.
Passive Slow WAN operation - reduces file activity to decrease network
file traffic.
Auto Backup Data & Setups Tool
Common Alarm Relay 320 Relays per system.
Floating Point Store File Format
Auto Print Store file at Rollover
Shimaden Monitor Free Access
Store Files:
Recorder Store File Error Check
If any store file errors occur, they are saved to temporary memory, and written
to the store file at time of next file update - thus no need for recorder store
file error display, as most store file write errors are of a transient nature
i.e error occurs at time of file write as anti virus scanner or backup program
has file opened.
Recorder Store File Rollover
Improvements to reliability/speed of page*.map update when large number of
files in page*.map file.
Store File changes logged to activity files (store *.txt) in setup folder
(rollover, rename, creation, store file errors).
At time of rollover, if Page Current Data can't be renamed, don't update the
page*.map file.
Batch View - display additional page*.map and file rollover info in Batch
View, Select Batch dialog.
History View - display additional page*.map and file rollover info in History
View, details dialog.
Manual Delete File from page*.map
Manual Insert File to page*.map
Display activity info to backup and History View, Details and Batch View, Select
Batch.
Batch:
Move Digitals down when printing a batch graph with header
Display Batch display batch run state/time of run in Page Title Bar.
Networking:
Network Status File improvements:
Keep run status online if active or passive is still running. Record
"refresh" message to network status log.csv to indicate active or
passive has refreshed its run state in the network status file.
Network View
Add selections for View Connected, Actives, Passives, All.
Display of Network Folder in Setup Tools status bar at bottom.
Passives & actives keep record index of status info file index, so when it
is updated just seek to that position instead of having to read the file through
again each time.
Save v5 build number to start message in network status log.csv
Passive Network Not run status display:
display Last Known drive mapping for network folder connection (in case passive
rebuilt on new machine and does not have drives mapped properly). Display time
& date at time that the display was shown.
Active:
Dont include files in network setup updates:
network dir.csv, job dir.csv, backupv5.txt, diag.txt, connect.txt, active connect.txt,
display.txt
Close Dialogs:
Indicate number of passives currently online when program is being closed.
Active navigation status display -
Add Network Active User Count display to below COMS: status. Double click to
view Network Status display.
Remove Peer to Peer selection in Active Setup.
Passives
Added extra step in wizard to choose search drives or specify path.
Passives have own session data: this is only updated on a page by page basis on
updates when a page is added on the active or the number of lines in a page is
changed.
Slow WAN settings:
Slow update on housekeeping functions & data updates.
Use File Time stamps to decide if data should be read or not.
Indicate Slow WAN on navtree "Network Passive Slow WAN". Save "-
Slow WAN" to network status log.
New passive activity display to show file updating progress (Data Files, Setup
Files, House Keeping).
Passive record delta time messages to diag.txt to indicate when passive busy.
If a mimic is displayed when a active file update occurs- refresh the mimic
display on the passive.
If the mimic is enabled when active file update occurs, rebuild font settings on
the passive.
Auto Backup Data & Setups
Separate tool for auto backups of data & setups -
Thus no user interfaces hold ups for data backups & setup changes auto
backups.
Auto Setup changes pending on program close are stored and completed the next
time microscan is started.
Setup Backup
Include network.net and page.net in backup (note this file IS included in
Restore Point Auto Backup & Setup Backup with Include Store Files ON).
Include network status in backup as network status.bak (so that network search
does not find network status file and think that the jobname\setup folder is a
valid network folder.
Licensing & Modules
DLP-D dongles produced after 31/3/2010 must have PLC code to allow a tag
package to run PLC interfaces.
Date is determined from serial number encoding on dongle.
Allow operation of Shimaden Lite (Shimaden Monitor) on Navigation Tree on any microscan (previously had to be Tag package). It is enabled on Create New Job for Tag packages, but for other packages, enable Shimaden Monitor in Setup Tools, System Modules as it is disabled by default.