-------------------------------------------------------- Release Notes for DP Informer v 5.3.40825 25 August, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------- 1. Introduction -------------------------------------------------------- This text is stored in a file called DPIUPDATE.TXT. It will be installed into the program directory, so you can read or print it at your convenience. These release notes are provided to help you learn about changes to the software which have occurred too late to include in the on-line manual and help systems. Review the Contents section (next) to see if any of the Release Notes may be of interest to you. -------------------------------------------------------- 2. Contents -------------------------------------------------------- 1. Introduction (prior section) 2. Contents (this section) 3. Enhancements 4. Fixes 5. Known Issues 6. Post-CD Fixes & Enhancements -------------------------------------------------------- 3. Enhancements -------------------------------------------------------- MULTIPLE FAX DEVICES Allow setup of multiple fax devices for simultaneous transmission in File|Communication Settings. In the transmission center, each fax device has its own transmission window. E-mail transmission also has its own transmission window. These devices are capable of transmitting faxes and e-mails simultaneously. This allows users to set up a computer with multiple fax devices, so that faxes and e-mails will be transmitted more efficiently. RESULT LETTER DP Informer will now use the standard DrugPak Result Letter report. Previously, DP Informer used a special version of the Result Letter report, due to prior data structure differences. Since this is no longer necessary, DP Informer has been modified to use the standard Result Letter report. If you have a custom Result Letter report, then Informer will use that report. MRO NAME and VERIFICATION DATE are no longer required to send Alcohol results. USABILITY CHANGES Company Preferences Dialog: Some of the interface labels on the Company Preferences window have been re-labeled to be clearer. A) "List Export Format" has been renamed "File Type". This corresponds to the various file types "PDF", etc. B) "Result List Report" has been renamed "Report Style" The accompanying data-entry field now provides a drop-down list of descriptive styles (e.g. "One-Line List", "Letter Format", etc.) TASK LIST "FIND" BUTTON A Find button is now available on the Task List window. TECHNICAL CHANGES Previously, all Informer reports were stored in a special folder (REPORT_I) because of file-name conflicts with some standard DrugPak reports. Now all of the standard Informer reports have been renamed to avoid this conflict, and they have been moved into the standard REPORTS folder. The REPORT_I folder is now used exclusively to store custom reports for use with Informer. Any such reports should NOT have any of the following names: RESHORT.RPT RESHORT0.RPT RESDATA.RPT DATASHRT.RPT I_RES0.RPT I_RES1.RPT I_DATA0.RPT I_DATA1.RPT RESLTTR.RPT DATABASE UPGRADES To support new reporting file name and folder structure. A) Level 55: Reports in the \report_I\custom folder are moved down into the report_I folder. Some reports (RESHORT.RPT, RESHORT0.RPT, RESDATA.RPT, DATASHRT.RPT) will be renamed with a leading underscore character. The database will be updated to reflect this name change. B) Level 56: References to the standard report names are changed (to reflect the fact that these standard reports have been changed). Old Name New Name --------- --------- datashrt i_data0 resdata i_data1 reshort i_res1 reshort0 i_res0 -------------------------------------------------------- 4. Fixes -------------------------------------------------------- COMPANY PREFERENCES FIND DIALOG BUG A minor bug was fixed in the behavior of the Find dialog in Company Preferences. When two records had the same Company ID and Home Base, the Find window would only find the first instance. This has been fixed, and it now uses the (relatively) new REC_ID field to locate the record. -------------------------------------------------------- 5. Known Issues -------------------------------------------------------- You can keep up-to-date with the latest version of DrugPak by visiting our Update page on the web: http://drugpak.com/dpupdate -------------------------------------------------------- 6. Post-CD Fixes & Enhancements -------------------------------------------------------- 12/18/2003 Fixed a bug which prevented the Transmission Center from minimizing properly. Solved a problem which had prevented Win NT machines from previewing generated reports by double clicking on the file name in the Task List. 12/22/2003 Added counters to the transmission center status bar, indicating how many Faxes and Emails were Sent and how many Failed. It is worth noting that the same task may fail several times, or fail and then succeed later. Changed the default behavior of the transmission center to NOT automatically minimize itself. Now the auto-minimize behavior is controlled by a menu-item on the Transmission Center 'Options' menu. Changed the behavior of the Generate Tasks routine, to ensure that a valid printer is selected when exporting. 1/4/2004 Added profiling to transmission center 1/14/2004 Modified generate tasks routine to support custom result letter reports with the file name "RESLTTR*.RPT", with the exception of "RESLTTR.RPT" and "RESLTTR0.RPT". Place your custom result letter in ...\dp50\report_I folder. Fixed a bug where settings such as "Cover Letter" and "Email Subject" were being saved with the user name, rather than globally (under the MASTER user name). The Transmission center always reads the settings as if they are global settings. This has been fixed so that when you are in DP Informer Communication Settings, the settings which should be global WILL in fact be saved globally. Fixed a bug in the generation routine wherein the "original result letter" format was never being used. Now the generation process will respect the user's "use original result letter" setting. 1/19/2004 Allow selection of any *.RPT file for custom fax form. 2/23/2004 Allow the same Facts-on-Demand account number to be used by multiple recipients, as long as the PIN is not the same. Previously each account number could be used only once. 2/24/2004 E-mail subject is now being retrieved from the correct configuration file. Test mode faxes were reported as successful in the Transmission Center if no test fax number was present. Unchecking "Send Faxes" in the Transmission Center did not cause faxes to stop sending. Added more extensive task logging in the Transmission Center Prevented occasional program hangs when exceptions were encountered in the Transmission Center As of DrugPak 5.3, some workstation settings became user settings. This was problematic for the Transmission Center because it does not log in as a particular user. All Transmission Center settings are now stored appropriately as either workstation or global settings. Repaired a small memory leak in the task generation process. Allow selection of any report file as the custom fax report. Added long distance dial suffix to Informer communication settings. This number will be appended to every long distance number before dialing. Commas can be used to insert pauses in dialing. Corrected a situation in which cancelled faxes were incorrectly marked as complete. 4/1/2004 Added support for email encryption. Enter the customer's desired encryption password in the Company Preferences dialog, on the Email Settings page. (Omitting the password will cause emails to be transmitted without encyrption). Encrypted reports are included as attachments in the email. The encrypted attachments have the extension *.EEA ("Encrypted Email Attachment"). Customers can download a free decoder from http://drugpak.com/eea The EEA Decoder registers itself as the default handler for EEA files. The user needs only to "Open" the EEA attachment, and the EEA Decoder will be launched, prompting the user for their password. The user can then view and save the decrypted reports. You can set up your own web page with a link to the EEA decoder. However, to ensure that your link always provides an up-to-date version of the decoder, we recommend that you use the following URL in your link: http://drugpak.com/eeasetup The EEA Decoder is installed with every DP Informer Update. The DP Informer HELP menu includes a link to install the decoder. 5/3/2004 Added an option to the "Generate Tasks" dialog: "Auto-Reset Print Engine". Turn this checkbox ON to help reduce memory consumption when generating hundreds of reports. 5/4/2004 Recompiled transmission center to synchronize version number with the Informer. 5/24/2004 A new option has been added for Result Letters. The MRO signature image can be included on all letters, on no letters, or only on letters for negative results. To use this option, select "Always," "Never," or "Negatives" for "Result Letters - Print MRO Signature" on the DP Informer Module's General Options (Global Settings | DP Informer Module | General Options). The new option only applies to faxes and e-mails that use the "Letter Format" report style. 6/03/2004 Protect from accessing an incorrect company fax number. 6/11/2004 Fax header/cover options were being loaded as global (system- wide) settings but saved as user settings. This made it appear as though changes to the fax header/cover options were not being saved. Fax header/cover are now saved and loaded as global settings. 6/24/2004 It was possible for a task to be added to the task list even if the attachment failed to generate. Better error checking was added to make sure that even silent failures are caught and reported. Fax dial attempts and retry wait settings were being read from the wrong location. These settings are now read correctly for each individual fax modem. Also, dial attempts will default to one when a new fax modem is added. 7/05/2004 --Modified email headers so that emails are no longer identified as spam by SpamAssassin. --Transmission Center now listens on UDP port 64121 for notification from DP Informer or the Automation Server when fax or email tasks have been generated. Upon receiving notification, the Transmission Center will abort its sleep cycle and begin transmitting immediately. 7/06/2004 --Transmission Center user interface has been modified to create a cleaner interface, and to hide the transmission log memos. 7/09/2004 --It is now easier to store the sender name as part of the From email address. Simply separate the name from the email address by at least one space. The Transmission Center looks for the "@" symbol to determine the email address. It removes that, and then everything else is treated like the name. Use quotes around the name if you want to include the @ symbol. All of the following examples are valid: "Support@DrugPak.Com" david@drugpak.com DrugPak Support support@drugpak.com david@drugpak.com David Goncalves 7/13/2004 Dial Attempts and Retry Wait have been removed as fax options. After a fax fails, it will reschedule the fax for five minutes hence, and then continue onto the next pending fax. After reaching the end of the pending faxes, it will return to the top of the pending list, and will try previously failed faxes again (up to 10 times) 7/22/2004 Fixed a bug which prevented the fax viewer from displaying faxes if the path to the DP50\XMIT directory was longer than 80 characters. 8/6/2004 Added a new "Broadcast Email/Fax Generator" tool on the toolbar and Tools menu. Use this new tool create and send bulk unsolicited emails or faxes to your DP Informer contacts. This option is present on the toolbar, as well as on the Tools menu. The following components are offered. ***************** Email checkbox Check this checkbox on if you would like to generate emails. ***************** Fax checkbox Check this checkbox on if you would like to generate faxes ***************** Company Scope Choose All companies, Consortium, or single company ***************** Extra Filter You can specify an additional filter to restrict which company preferences records are eligible to receive this broadcast. ***************** File To Send. Select a document to fax and/or email. For Emails, this document will be included as an attachment. For Faxes, you will be prompted to print the document using the "APF Fax PRinter" printer. The APF Fax Printer monitor will then capture the print job and create a fax document. The File to Send is optional; you can instead create a broadcast message based on the other settings (cover page and/or message). ***************** Fax Cover Specify the Fax Cover page file. You can use plain text or graphical (FCP) cover pages. See "Tools | Fax Cover Page Editor" to design additional graphical cover pages. This file must exist in the ...\dp50\messages folder. This is an optional setting; you can create tasks with only a "File to send" or only a custom message. ***************** Email Body Specify the text file that contains the text that you want to appear in the body of the email message. The file must exist in the ...\dp50\messages folder. This is an optional setting. You can create tasks with only a "File to send" or only a message. ***************** Custom Email Message Body / Fax Cover Message Enter addtional custom text to appear at the end of the fax cover page and email message body. This is an optional setting. 8/10/2004 Fixed a bug in which if there is a filter on the task list based on the a particular task status, and you use the main menu option "Task List | Change status of displayed records" then many records get skipped, because after changing the status the record disappears from the filter and then the process goes "next" anyway. 8/11/2004 -- Added a new checkbox option to the Broadcast Generator: "Only send fax if the recipient normally receives reports via fax." The corresponding option for email is also provided. -- Added a new checkbox to the Broadcast Generator: "Do not send multiple messages to the same fax number." This is useful if the same recipient has been set up in Informer multiple times to receive different formats of reports. The corresponding option for email is also provided. 8/25/2004 The Broadcast Generator's consortium list is now being populated In Administrator, Task List | Change Status of Displayed Records was only updating every other task in the list. This has been fixed. In Transmission Center, subsequent faxes were being sent unsuccessfully after an error occurred in an earlier fax. This would be reported in the fax log as an access violation, followed by a failure to configure and open the TAPI port.