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QW 5.0 Maintenance Release Information

This page contains detailed information about the changes evident in each maintenance release of Quality Window 5, and it's associated programs. Should you have any questions concerning a change, contact Busitech Tech Support directly.

Build No.	Details of Changes to Quality Window
5.0.0.727 January 16, 2008	corrected subscript out of range in QWVarInfo (blank entry at end of QWUnits.SYS)
5.0.0.726 October 18, 2007	corrected F9 (Prev Value) key when in Edit mode added a Selection class to QWTool default to application path for IO files specified in a Filter statement allow update of Output files when blank
5.0.0.724 August 23, 2007	added a choice to archive Application when changes saved in QWSetup - save X-Axis Label option to the registry check for same record length and number of fields when importing a View make Prev Value Button invisible on Add screen, but still allow F9 corrected writing Deletes to transaction log when Security turned on at Template and transaction levels corrected number of decimal places on histogram labels corrected printing log sheet in portrait/landscape mode corrected backspace in field edit mode from deleting entire field instead of only last character corrected deleting the view file when a View was deleted corrected looping problem if security is turned on but no security file found corrected format of "D" records in transaction log file corrected type mismatch under QWSetup Directory Files for non-English versions of Windows corrected type mismatch in QWFilePack if PreProcess or PostProcess defined with mixed paths corrected QWFilePack commandline for all templates in a folder corrected problem with Relationship Report where variables were listed out of order on dropdown.
5.0.0.718 January 8, 2007	Changed environment variable name to QW50PATH for global location of the following files: QWRULES.SYS QWSTATS.SYS QWUNITS.SYS To set a QW50PATH Environment Variable: right mouse click My Computer select Properties click the Advanced tab click Environment Variables under System Variable click Add enter QW50PATH in the Variable name field enter the full network path where your QWRULES.SYS, QWSTATS.SYS and QWUNITS.SYS files are located If the files are not found in the folder specified by the QW50PATH environment variable a message will be displayed.
5.0.0.716 December 12, 2006	resolved deletion of Popup fields and popup data Import from Excel in QWSetup
5.0.0.713 November 16, 2006	added QWSumStat to calculate and display summary statistics across multiple templates added support for MHT (portable HTML) output on open reconcile .QWI and .QWA files to maintain QW 4.5 compatibility added a space between Application Title and View Name in QW.HTM corrected pressing two keys at once added QWSQL Wizard for connection to SQL driven databases corrected loop if no chartable variables found added environment variable support for QWRULES.SYS and QWSTATS.SYS files using the QWPATH environment variable corrected loop if downtime timer script cancelled during an Add corrected problem with Brazil Portuguese locale and I/O files Summarized Views now inherit limits when Average chosen to summarize by Options / Statistics disabled if QWSTATS.SYS is Read Only show current application file name if read-only & limit method on Status Bar corrected loading the wrong filename when referencing existing files after switching directories added variable formatting using the Unit of Measure field for variables containing date & time, other than V1&V2. The Units of Measure table in QWSetup should contain the following entries in order to make use of this feature: Copy and paste the following 13 lines into the top of QWUNITS.SYS in your Systems folder using NotePad. *** Do Not Change ***,[*** Date Formats Follow ***] 2006-06-31,Date[yyyy-mm-dd] 2006-Jan-31,Date[yyyy-mmm-dd] 2006-January-31,Date[yyyy-mmmm-dd] 01-31-2006,Date[mm-dd-yyyy] Jan-31-2006,Date[mmm-dd-yyyy] January-31-2006,Date[mmmm-dd-yyyy] 31-01-2006,Date[dd-mm-yyyy] 31-Jan-2006,Date[dd-mmm-yyyy] 31-January-2006,Date[dd-mmmm-yyyy] *** Do Not Change ***,[*** Time Formats Follow ***] 15:34:26,Time[hh:mm:ss] 5:34:26am,Time[hh:mm:ssa] the following calculated functions now support the use of variables containing date & time formatting: @TIMEDIFF[V3,V4,V1,V2] = second between V3-V4 & V1-V2 @DOW[V3] = the day of the week number (1 to 7) from V3 @DAY[V3] = the day of the month from V3 @MONTH[V3] = the month (1 to 12) from V3 @YEAR[V3] = the year from V3 @JULIAN[V3] = the Julian date for V3
5.0.0.687 March 13, 2006	Corrected commandline opening of a template View
5.0.0.684 February 10, 2006	corrected File / Save View As corrected Save Image As corrected display of Hat Chart on Prioritize screen if RULE statistic turned off added new Statistics to Help file show Summary screen after and Add or update if RULE statistic turned off corrected navigation by arrow up/down/left/right, page up/down, End and Home keys corrected Median calculation re-aligned default statistics
5.0.0.672 January 9, 2006	Corrected position in popup if entry no longer exists
5.0.0.670 December 5, 2005	Corrected recalculation after Edit Corrected landscape print from icon
5.0.0.668 November 7, 2005	Added Upper Confidence Interval Observed PPM (UCIoPPM) statistic Added Upper Confidence Interval Calculated PPM (UCIcPPM) statistic Added QWFilePack to collect & ZIP template & associated files Increased speed at which popups are processed Added Home Directory icon to open dialogue: If Home Directory is set, open dialogue will display the Existing Files tab pointing to the Home Directory If no Home Directory is set, open dialogue will display the Recent Files tab If there are no recent files, open dialogue will display the existing files tab pointing to the working folder Right-click on any item now shows a Clear Home Directory menu. If no Home Directory is set, this menu is disabled The Home icon on the Existing Tab toolbar, when clicked, will jump to the Home Directory folder The Home icon now shows a tooltip indicating the Home Directory path Statistics Selection interface improved: now shows Available and Selected columns both columns supports selecting multiple items (click and drag, shift key, control key) Available column list sorted alphabetically Selected column listed in user defined order Allow F10 Save when on right side of Edit screen Don't allow Open, Views, Filter, etc... when in Add/Edit mode Allow Output files to be saved if filename greater than 128 characters Added option in Views to Exclude variables with no data Allow Date & Time to be entered in Filter criteria Added Relationship Report Added Default View setting in Views
5.0.0.645 July 14, 2005	Compare chart can now show different variables at the same time Corrected reference to grid module
5.0.0.628 May 3, 2005	added Interval chart to Trieto screen enhanced memory management now using binary search for faster data retrieval control Chart cursor bar removed during print. Reset after print. added filtering on Trieto screen F9/backspace not allowed on Protected variables disabled Save during Save (to prevent double clicks) added Display as Web Document from File Menu added QWReport output to SCREEN commandline option added Clear Filter button added Classic & Color to Options for Log Sheet added Date & Time formats to Options menu improved printing added .DIR commandline support (QWSetup creates .DIR) added QWVersion for customer support enhanced install for PocketQW added new Zoom icon for all tibbed charts (Options/Zoom) added server based licensing support enhanced QWLaunch for shortcuts from QW added font options for Add & Edit screens (Options/Fonts) added X-axis Labels for Control Chart (Options/Control Chart) added Save Image as (.BMP or .JPG) to File menu disabled Open button and File/Open if application opened via commandline added @FRACTION added properties of template in use in QWSetup added properties of template in use in Quality Window. Click here to view how to configure DCOM for this option. added the following statistics Observed > USL % Observed > USL ppm Observed > USL n Observed > UCL % Observed > UCL ppm Observed > UCL n Observed > UWL % Observed > UWL ppm Observed > UWL n Observed < TGT % Observed < TGT ppm Observed < TGT n Observed > TGT % Observed > TGT ppm Observed > TGT n Observed < LWL % Observed < LWL ppm Observed < LWL n Observed < LCL % Observed < LCL ppm Observed < LCL n Observed < LSL % Observed < LSL ppm Observed < LSL n Calculated > USL % Calculated > USL ppm Calculated > USL n Calculated > UCL % Calculated > UCL ppm Calculated > UCL n Calculated > UWL % Calculated > UWL ppm Calculated > UWL n Calculated < TGT % Calculated < TGT ppm Calculated < TGT n Calculated > TGT % Calculated > TGT ppm Calculated > TGT n Calculated < LWL % Calculated < LWL ppm Calculated < LWL n Calculated < LCL % Calculated < LCL ppm Calculated < LCL n Calculated < LSL % Calculated < LSL ppm Calculated < LSL n
5.0.0.531 October 25, 2004	Made changes to: QWSchedule QWAdd QWTrigger Corrected data formatting on control chart axis for Summary & Prioritize
5.0.0.530 September 10, 2004	Files opened via command line are no longer added to the recent files list Fixed Rule violation if insufficient data for all Rules
5.0.0.527 July 29, 2004	Fixed drawing of icons on Summary screen Fixed chart banding for Target based on Target Method Fixed the Required flag for AVG type variables
5.0.0.511 April 30, 2004	Fixed sort by Records and Size on Open Application dialogue Histogram average line corrected Added QWSchedule QWAdd QWTrigger QWLogView QWUtilities (Export & ReOrg)
5.0.0.510 April 15, 2004	Fixed double click on log sheet for Edit Fixed international decimal (, vs .) place holder in Views Fixed international issue when writing QWStats.SYS file
5.0.0.508 March 30, 2004	Fixed row height problem on log sheet
5.0.0.505 March 3, 2004	Added Calculated Target to Log Sheet Fixed error when loading an application with no variables
5.0.0.501 February 26, 2004	Added Target Value to Log Sheet Fixed Range Chart Options menu Fixed Prioritize statistic triggers for Hat Chart Fixed Font property on all charts
5.0.0.500 January 26, 2004	New open dialogue @RULE calculation corrected @MPREV calculation corrected Transaction log viewer added
5.0.0.448 April 25, 2003	Corrected %CV when SD is null Corrected Delete Record cancellation Corrected long Text field processing Corrected Popup field processing if Input file used
5.0.0.447 April 18, 2003	Corrected use of international decimal symbol Now allow adding data if only Filtering applied in Views Corrected Invalid Procedure Call on Report tab
5.0.0.446 April 11, 2003	Corrected Text variable formatting
5.0.0.440 April 4, 2003	Corrected minimize error on Begin screen Synchronized components
5.0.0.435 March 27, 2003	Improved precision Activation of tooltips on log sheet Corrected division by zero in Views Now handles Text fields over 500 characters
5.0.0.431 March 24, 2003	Implemented security for Views Manager
5.0.0.421 February 28, 2003	Added Trieto functionality for Event Analysis Added Refresh button to Toolbar
5.0.0.413 February 12, 2003	Commandline file association enhanced
5.0.0.412 February 7, 2003	Improved Views naming (ButtonMenu)
5.0.0.411 November 7, 2002	Fixed minor problem in Auto Refresh Auto Refresh fires on current screen. Does not change current screen. Added CTRL N to Options/Refresh/Never menu. Variables with all Blank limits not added to chart items Fixed DBCS support for Security Added test for Scripting installed Added HTML control with print capability Added Misc funciton to handle Get T&F under Scripting Fixed command line parameters with long filenames Display actual parameters used in Filter Summary report Added Clipboard class Now using uppercase string compares for Sort Distincts
5.0.0.408 October 15, 2002	Remove Refresh button from toolbar. Improved functionality with Auto Refresh Added display functions to Summary and Prioritize from Options menu. Moved prioritize tab after Compare and before Report.
5.0.0.386 October 3, 2002	Added Summary Screen Removed extension from incoming filename Added Macro Menu
55.0.0.382 September 30, 2002	Added Copy Log Sheet function from the Edit menu. Read/Write of Font Options
5.0.0.368 September 10, 2002	Implemented the Create Desktop Shortcut function from the File menu.
5.0.0.344 August 26, 2002	Added Save Report As... menu item under the File menu. Added auto refresh functionality.
5.0.0.334 August 20, 2002	Added new menu entries under Options. Prioritize Rule Violations Hat Chart (CrTz) Automatic setting of Rule Violations on Prioritize screen
5.0.0.333 August 8, 2002	Fixed highlighting on histogram bar on mouseover.

QW Setup
The following information details changes to the QW Setup program.

Build No.	Details of Changes to QW Setup
5.0.0.104 November 7, 2006	resolved deletion of Popup fields and popup data Import from Excel in QWSetup
5.0.0.101 November 7, 2006	Application Grid View was not supporting Report Type of A30 Added support for modifying templates containing QW SQL parameters
5.0.0.086 March 27, 2006	Changed Grid View paste to selectively convert to UPPER case in specific columns instead of all
5.0.0.085 March 23, 2006	corrected QWI/QWA update
5.0.0.084 March 6, 2006	Added DIO prefix support for Input/Output File
5.0.0.083 February 1, 2006	corrected popup Export for older versions of Excel®
5.0.0.081 January 9, 2006	Security data editor enhanced
5.0.0.079 December 5, 2005	corrected maintaining focus in popup data editor when scrolled to the right allow deletion of a calculated variable when calculated using itself Rules update corrected if moved off record before saving corrected Popup data import of numeric data with many decimal places corrected Number of Value to Average for Average type variables corrected Popup data export for single level popups corrected variable name change corrected file lock if there was no data in a new template corrected record out of sequence repair corrected Average type variable if Number of Values to Average not entered corrected Applications / Save As if no structure changes made allow adding multiple template to .DIR file
5.0.0.072 July 8, 2005	Added Popup data export/import capability
5.0.0.064 May 3, 2005	added Application Properties information showing where template is in use changed temp file name to be $templatefilename$ corrected file access rights error use of : in Input/Output Filenames added output DDE and OPC clipboard support and validation corrected paste from Excel® added @Fraction calculation added .DIR option
5.0.0.052 August 12, 2004	Resolved data lock warning when empty template data first opened in QW
5.0.0.048 April 30, 2004	Added "Template in Use" message if template open in another program Put Cancel & OK buttons back on 'Apply to Multiple' form
5.0.0.047 April 20, 2004	Added cross-folder Popup selection Fixed Save application when no changes were made Fixed international decimal (, vs .) place holder
5.0.0.045 February 27, 2004	Fixed Copy Selected variable calculation Changed Control Chart Axis settings Text Fixed tab order and focus on Rules Changed clone variable function to work with new open dialogue
5.0.0.39 April 7, 2003	Popup selection list now sorted Allow Required & Sampling Plan change in Views
5.0.0.37 March 11, 2003	QWA file resolved for QW 4.5 compatibility Security Level Input enhanced Implemented security for Views Manager
5.0.0.35 February 25, 2003	Temporary files now being renamed
5.0.0.34 February 3, 2003	Resizing algorithm enhanced Application grid enhanced To reflect changes to QWAccess & QWSelect
5.0.0.33 January 31, 2003	New resizing algorithm Security Login enhanced Registry path corrected Corrected historical dates for Views Corrected refresh midnight rollover
5.0.0.33 December 5, 2002	New resizing algorithm Security Login enhanced Registry path corrected
5.0.0.32 November 4, 2002	QWSetup DBCS Character Set Read/Write corrected QWSetup / Applications Interval Setting Display corrected QWSetup / Popups Levels change corrected
5.0.0.28 September 3, 2002	Window state changed
5.0.0.24 July 23, 2002	Help enabled Average, Length & Calculation validation enabled
5.0.0.22 July 22, 2002	Calendar read issue resolved
5.0.0.21 July 18, 2002	Date Picker now available for Security Expiry date Pacifier centered
5.0.0.20 July 16, 2002	Updated Multiple Variable Change Forms Script Menu Issue Fixed Grid Validation Problem Fixed Replace Feature added on grid Windows Cut/Copy/Paste enabled
5.0.0.19 July 9, 2002	Default script now available Delete message now prompts before item deletion
5.0.0.18 June 19, 2002	Close click now saves Application Settings Limit value resolved an both Variable and Grid Mode Formating Limits can both be blank now Limit validation has been updated to be more robust All Limtis now conform to international language Settings Modify QWD now incorporates new value specifications Variable Used for AutoNumber added Added Delete Applications and Popups Added Rename Applications and Popups Calculation editor updated Grid now supports Multiple variable changes on variable details menu

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