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VisuaLCN Formation Client - Version Release Notes

Software Release 4.14b
Software Enhancements

Component	Description
Calibration 2	Zero calibration reporting has been added for current and voltage.
Calibration 2	Modules may now be calibrated with no zero voltage or current calibration points.
Configure Utility	Offline Circuit Recovery Period has been added to the Server Settings page. This allows a user to set the time in seconds that the server will wait between retrying to connect to offline circuits.
Program Editor	New safety feature: When saving a program, the software checks to make certain every step has a limit condition that will exit the step. If the step does not, a warning is displayed and the user can choose to save the program as is, or to cancel the save activity.
Program Editor	New safety feature: Two options can now be selected for current and power. When this feature is turned on, control parameters for these types will default to zero instead of the default specified in the module database.

Code changes continually as features are added; unfortunately sometimes bugs are introduced and may not reside in earlier versions. It is recommended that you check the list that follows before requesting an update.
Bug Fixes

Component	Description
Server	In Emergency Data Recording, the first data buffer dump would be lost. This problem has been fixed.
Calibration 2	"Current As Found" was mistakenly divided by the scale factor. This has been fixed.
Calibration 2	The current target as actually used is now saved into the data file and is editable. This value is used in the report, not the default value.
Quick Data View	The Quick Data View application will no longer crash when scrolling to a last page that is short enough not to require scroll bars.
Data Export	Columns for assignable data fields now export with the field names they've been assigned to, not "Assignable Variable 1", etc. This behavior matches that of the Quick Data View export.
Data Export	Numbers behind decimal points were not recorded properly in all cases. This bug has been fixed.

Software Release 4.13
Code changes continually as features are added; unfortunately sometimes bugs are introduced and may not reside in earlier versions. It is recommended that you check the list that follows before requesting an update.
Bug Fixes

Component	Description
Data Export	Time scaling has been corrected
Program Editor	Control Parameters and Limit Conditions with C-Rate and Number-of-Cell multipliers will now copy properly. They will also copy correctly during A-to-B module type conversion
Calibration 2	Cell voltages in discharge mode may now be calibrated (for Bitrode Model DTV users).
Quick Data View	Headers for Assignable Data Channels will now sort in the correct order. Sorting is based on the new DataFieldNumber field in the test database.

Software Release 4.09b
Software Enhancements

Component	Description
Server	VisuaLCN's Server application now uses new syntax when creating default test names. Instead of using a date/time stamp format, followed by a circuit ordinal, Server new creates file names as date/time stamp, followed by the circuit name.

Software Release 4.09
Software Enhancements

Component	Description
Program Editor, Client	VisuaLCN's Program Editor and Client applications now support C-rate programming.

Software Release 4.08
Software Enhancements

Component	Description
Program Editor	A condensed spreadsheet format for printing program listing has been added to the Program Editor application.

Software Release 4.07a
Code changes continually as features are added; unfortunately sometimes bugs are introduced and may not reside in earlier versions. It is recommended that you check the list that follows before requesting an update.
Bug Fixes

Component	Description
Server	The VisuaLCN Server no longer 'hangs' on shutdown under Windows 2000 or XP. This bug appeared in VisuaLCN versions 4.06a and 4.07.

Software Release 4.07
Software Enhancements

Component	Description
Client	In Circuit View, the Current Battery Type may now be chosen as a variable for display.

Component	Description
Quick Data View	Floating point numbers longer than five digits will now display correctly.

Software Release 4.06a
Software Enhancements

Component	Description
Client	Lab Client now supports up to 16 assignable data channels in support of applicable Bitrode test circuits
Installation	VisuaLCN version upgrade installation is now fully automatic. Previous version upgrades required the user to save settings and files before manually removing oder versions, then restoring preference settings and files. Version 4.06a upgrade installation, in most cases, requires only that the user run the installation program.
OS Support	With the upgrade of the Windows Sockets version from 1.1 to 2.0, VisuaLCN software, revision 4.06a or newer, will no longer run in a Windows 95 operating environment. Support for VisuaLCN products on the Windows 95 platform will continue until 15 February 2005. For more details regarding system support, see Bitrode's Software Support Policy.

Software Release 4.06
Software Enhancements

Component	Description
Client	The "Open Profile Database" dialog, activated either in the Network Overivew or the Start Formation windows, now defaults to the Most Recently Used file.
Client	The Profile Database field in the Start Formation dialog now defaults to the setting specified in the Client Program Database field, which is found in the Security tab of the Configure component. If this setting is empty, the most recently used Profile Database from the previous successful start is used. In both cases users can modify the default setting by changing the database path and the filename after entering the password.
Quick Data View	An alternative "one sheet wide" printing method has been added, available as a choice in the Quick Data View print dialog. Circuit data printed this way will appear in contiguous rows instead of spanning pages horizontally.
Quick Data View	Users may choose either to print to a printer or to a file. This option is available in the Quick Data View Print dialog.
Quick Graph	The text size of the graph title may now be changed in the Set Graph Title window, selected from the menu bar or the toolbar.

Software Release 4.05a
Code changes continually as features are added; unfortunately sometimes bugs are introduced and may not reside in earlier versions. It is recommended that you check the list that follows before requesting an update.
Bug Fixes

Component	Description
Quick Data View	The "Apply an SQL Filter" toolbar button had different behavior than the "Apply an SQL Filter" command in the pull down menu or command button. Behaviors for these selections haves been made consistent across the entire interface, giving the user the choice of New, Edit or Apply from the Open/Save SQL Template window.
Program Editor	Information from Step Zero can now be copied between test programs.

Software Release 4.04e
Software Enhancements

Component	Description
Reports Engine	Real time reports now include circuit names. If the user renames a circuit with a custom name, the report will use that name instead of the circuit address.

Component	Description
Data Export, Quick Graph & Quick Data View	These applications scaled time to milliseconds when the time scale factor was 0.01 for modules with 0.01 resolution, while the VisuaLCN Client application was scaling the same time to seconds. This has been corrected; Data Export, Quick Graph and Quick Data View now show seconds for modules with 0.01 resolution.
Reports Engine	The "Circuit Utilization" report sometimes printed duplicate circuit names. This has been corrected.

Software Release 4.04b
Software Enhancements

Component	Description
Client	User-defined circuit names are now stored in the test database along with the test data
Quick Data View	A "Circuit Name" field has been added to the Test Properties dialog box, and is included in exported and printed data.
Data Export	Circuit names are now included in exported data.
Reports Engine	Users may now specify start and end times as well as dates.
Reports Engine	"End of Formation" and "Circuit Utilization" reports will now print the circuit name, if it exists in the test database: otherwise, the circuit address will be printed as in previous software versions.

Software Release 4.04a
Software Enhancements

Component	Description
User Manual	The VisuaLCN User Manual is now in portable document format (PDF), included on the VisuaLCN software installation disc. A self-extracting copy of Adobe Reader 5.1 has been included on the VisuaLCN disc, and is offered free of charge.
Quick Data View	Units are now exported together with column headers.
	Test information may now be printed before the test data, and test notes may be printed after the test data.
	When tests are appended, an entry is added to the non-editable test notes, indicating time, source database and the source test which was appended.

Component	Description
Client	If the Individual Circuit Status view was opened for an offline circuit, the Client application would crash. This has been remedied, and an error message is displayed instead.
Program Editor	Steps are now appended in numeric order for multiple-step cut and paste operations, no matter the order in which they were selected.
Reports Engine	End of Formation and Production Summary reports showed data for formation programs completed as well as for programs still running. This has been corrected; the reports now show only programs completed.

Software Release 4.03
Software Enhancements

Component	Description
Client	A new choice has been added to the Database Rollover Property Page in the Configuration, allowing the display of a notification when a test database reaches a specified size.

Quick Data View	Users could choose a preferred time format setting (Seconds vs. HH:MM:SS) when viewing or printing test data. Exported data now also honors the time format preference.

Component	Description
Program Editor	If multiple steps were selected in the Program Steps window, a right-click on a step would deselect all but one step. That has now been fixed; all selected steps remain highlighted.

Software Release 4.02
Code changes continually as features are added; unfortunately sometimes bugs are introduced and may not reside in earlier versions. It is recommended that you check the list that follows before requesting an update.
Bug Fixes

Component	Description
Client	Group views were updated in version 4.01 to flash if any circuit in the group was in an alarm state. One alarm was missed (the "Black Box Generic Mode" alarm), and a typo caused the use of an incorrect constant for the "Fuse Blown" alarm. These problems have been corrected.
Client	NOTE: This bug applies only to the New Generation (Bitrode model VCF circuit) module. If a program created with a step "0" was started, the program ran properly, but if the same program was modified, and step 0 was removed, the program would crash the Client. To correct this, The module firmware has been updated, and a check has been incorporated into the code.

Software Release 4.01
Software Enhancements

Component	Description
Client	“Time Left”, a calculated variable, has been added to Individual and Group Status Views' variable lists.
	In Group views, the title bar will flash an alarm if any circuit in the group goes into an alarm state. This will occur no matter which circuit happens to be displayed currently by the view.
	Navigation between multiple pages of circuit views has been made easier. In addition to the navigation buttons on the lower part of the application window, an edit field allows users to enter the number of the desired page.
Quick Data View	Notes and Editable Notes may now be exported with all other data to the comma-delimited file.

Component	Description
Data Export	Large data sets would not successfully export. This has been corrected.

Software Release 4.00
Software Enhancements

Component	Description
Program Editor	The user now has the option of selecting multiple program steps for operations such as copying, cutting, pasting or deleting.
Data Export	Data conversion may now be scheduled for automatic export at user-defined periods.
Client	Alarm states now trigger closure of a 120VAC contact which may be attached to a user-provided alarm panel. In addition, the alarm will be written to a read-only alarm log, downloaded to the server.
Client	Help files have been updated with the mode icon description. Mode icons are supported by tool tip notes.
Server	NOTE: For FCM modules only - User interface speed performance enhanced. Users can now change the background of the circuit view on the Loss of Control alarm.

Component	Description
Quick Data View	An SQL filter applied to a data set would ignore exlcusion flags and process all data in the set. This has been fixed - SQL filtering now applies only to non-excluded data samples.
Report Engine	The Circuit Utilization Report would always report the circuit address as 0, no matter what the address actually was. This behavior has been fixed.
Client	The Time Off graph would show incorrect data for the modules that have cell data. This behavior has been fixed.

Software Release 3.39
Code changes continually as features are added; unfortunately sometimes bugs are introduced and may not reside in earlier versions. It is recommended that you check the list that follows before requesting an update.
Bug Fixes

Component	Description
Quick Data View	When a source test was appended to a destination test, the time offset would be incorrect in the destination record. Append Test is in the Utilities menu - this has been corrected.
Server	The Server-to-Client communication would randomly prevent Client updates - this has been corrected.
Client	The Available Variables to View window would only list the first variable of a multiple instance variable. Now all instances are selectable.

Software Release 3.38a
Software Enhancements

Component	Description
Calibration	In VisuaLCN Lab/Formation Client a Documentation directory now exits under the VisuaLCN directory structure, this is where the manual resides.

Component	Description
	VisuaLCN running under Windows 95/98/Me now properly displays bitmap images which were missing in previous versions
Program Editor	the scroll bar in the tree control of the Program Steps window was on the left side of the window in Windows 2000/XP. The scroll bar is now on the right side of the window, which is consistent with all the other VisuaLCN components.

Software Release 3.37a
Code changes continually as features are added; unfortunately sometimes bugs are introduced and may not reside in earlier versions. It is recommended that you check the list that follows before requesting an update.
Bug Fixes

Component	Description
Quick Data View	The application would crash if a read-only test database was opened. Now Quick Data View can open a test database that has been configured as a read only file.

Software Release 3.36
Software Enhancements

Component	Description
Program Editor	A new feature has been made available called Cell Volt Range. With this feature a user can regulate the following limit conditions: voltage, temperature, positive delta temperature or negative delta temperature on the sequential selection of cell voltages. This is an option that has to be added on a per module type basis.

Component	Description
Client	Test Notes were not being added to database when initiated from Start Test window, also various related code changes were incorporated to the Test Notes area.
	The Program Map has been updated to more accurately format time values as hours : minutes : seconds and to be consistent with Program Editor. Previously, time values would show as hours : minutes : seconds in Program Editor but would sometimes show up as seconds in Program Map for the same module type.
	If the user was working with a module that had Pulse Time On and Pulse Time Off variables, an error message would appear when the user opened Program Map. These variables would not display correctly in Program Map.
Quick Data View	By default when exporting a test from the Test window the file name was created using the test name. If there was a space in the test name when the .csv file was created, the program creates the file name only using the text up to the first space in the name and omitted the remainder of the text causing Excel unable to open the file. Exporting now allows spaces in test names.

Software Release 3.35a
Software Enhancements

Component	Description
Client	Program Map option has been modified to allows the user to see the program steps of a program that has been downloaded to the module, if the module has less than one hundred steps. This function displays all the control parameters and limit conditions in a similair format as viewed in Program Editor. The Program Map highlights the current step of the running program.
Quick Data View	In the Test Selection window, a new column has been added called Test Date. Both Test Name and Test Date columns can be sorted ascending or descending, the order is indicated by displaying a triangle in either of those columns.
	The Test Date fields of the Test Properties and Test Selections windows now show seconds in the date and time format.
	If a test to be Deleted or Moved has not run to completion, a message box will show user a warning about possible data loss.

Component	Description
Client	In the Test Notes window, if too much text was entered in the Notes edit box, then text would scroll off the screen, the user was not able to view all that was entered because there was no horizontal scrollbar.
	In the Test Notes window, there was no limit to the amount of characters typed into the text edit box.
	The "_" character can now be used when naming tests.
	In the Network Overview window Configuration tree if the root group contained a child group and a child circuit, deletion of the child group made the circuit a sibling of the root group when it should have been unchanged (Lab Client only).
Server	A program could run even if one or more steps were rejected by the module. This bug was introduced in version 3.34.
Program Editor	In the Select Programs to Delete window, it is now possible to delete individual programs or an empty group using the Delete button or the Delete key on the keyboard.
Quick Graph	The time display format in the User Settings dialog was initialized to hours : minutes : seconds; however, the graph actually displayed a time variable in seconds. This only happened initially until OK or Apply has been clicked.
Quick Data View	The Advanced Settings now retain the sort order when applied.

Software Release 3.34
Code changes continually as features are added; unfortunately sometimes bugs are introduced and may not reside in earlier versions. It is recommended that you check the list that follows before requesting an update.
Bug Fixes

Component	Description
Client	In certain circumstances a mode was not updated when a module was started or stopped.
Quick Data View	By clicking the Extended Info and Clear All buttons and using the Advanced Settings filters in certain sequences in the Test Selection dialog window, an error message would display and the program would crash.
Quick Data View	The Circuit Name drop-down list box in the Advanced Settings section of the Test Selection dialog box would not show the correct information. It's title has also been changed to Circuit Address.

Software Release 3.33a
Software Enhancements

Component	Description
Client	In the Configure component, the "Data Acquisition Always Required" Security is a new option. When set to True in the Security section, the "Data Acquisition Required" checkbox in the Start dialog box in Client is grayed out. The user is then not allowed to disable data acquisition (Lab Client only).
	Program name and Circuit / Group name has been put on the Start Dialog title bar.
	Client Control security was removed from the "Retreive Data From a Module" operation. When Client Control security is set to TRUE it prohibits another user from starting, stopping or reloading another program in Client onto one started by the original user. However, it allows the other user to see the data in Quick Data View or retreive data. When disabled, it allows anyone to start, stop, resume the test, reload another test or see the data in Quick Data View. Refer to section 10 of the manual (Lab Client only).
Quick Data View	Export Test Information, has been added to allows the user a choice of exporting test information to a spreadsheet file along with the data samples.

Component	Description
Quick Data View	In the Configure window, a user can select the Maximum Rows Per Export File when exporting the data to a spreadsheet. The wrong number of data samples, however, was being returned in the spreadsheet files.
	When printing a single row, only one page would print when the row is more than a page wide. This now prints as many pages as needed.
	The Program section of the Test Properties window did not show the Program Database when a test was selected.
	The Exclude feature was not functioning correctly. The number of records chosen to be excluded from Quick Graph would often not be the ones excluded. Instead, records from another test would be affected. This has now been fixed so that the correct records chosen are excluded.
Quick Graph	In the Axis Properties window, the Grid Line Width list box which is in the Major/Minor Grid Line groups, did not function correctly. When a Grid Line Style other than solid was selected, the list box is supposed to be disabled. However, it continued to be enabled even after selecting a line other than solid. This behavior has been corrected.
	The Axis Properties window did not populate the data showing the Maximum, Minimum, Major Tick Space and Minor Ticks. After the OK button in the Select Variables for Graph window is clicked and a new graph is displayed, the Axis Properties window show the correct values.
	In the New Graph window, where the graph is displayed, the X-axis started at time of the first sample for "Total Time". It now starts at 0.

Software Release 3.32b
Code changes continually as features are added; unfortunately sometimes bugs are introduced and may not reside in earlier versions. It is recommended that you check the list that follows before requesting an update.
Bug Fixes

Component	Description
Server	The bug that caused the error message "Monitor Counter is less than 0" has been fixed (Formation Client only).
Client	If a circuit was in Standby mode when continuity test is started, it would not have allowed the next Start Test window to pop up (Formation Client only).

Software Release 3.32a
Code changes continually as features are added; unfortunately sometimes bugs are introduced and may not reside in earlier versions. It is recommended that you check the list that follows before requesting an update.
Bug Fixes

Component	Description
Client	If a group of circuits was expanded or collapsed while new test was being started, the test would not have started (Formation Client only).
Client	When a new test was started, a message box informed the user that the circuits were verified to be in Done or Stopped mode. This message box in most cases was shown mistakenly and delayed the test start for 10 - 15 sec (Formation Client only).

Software Release 3.32
Software Enhancements

Component	Description
Client	The Selected Variables MRU feature was made optional. In the Select Variables window for Individual and Group Status Views the user can choose to keep the selection as a default, the next time Client is started.

Component	Description
Program Editor	Program Editor would not allow the creation of a new program database in an empty root directory e.g. a:\.
Program Editor	A battery type could not be associated with a program more than once, now program can be re-associated with a battery type as often as needed (Formation Client only).