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Q11180 - INFO: Commence RM 5.1 Service Pack Information

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Release notes for latest version of Commence RM.

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This update will upgrade Commence RM Designer Edition version 3.5, 3.6, 4.0, 4.0(a), 4.1, 4.1(a), 5.0, 5.0(a), 5.0(b), 5.0(c) and 5.0(d) to the Commence RM Designer Edition version 5.1 release.

Changes in Commence RM version 5.1
Microsoft Office 64-bit Support
* Support for Outlook Email Logging and Word Mail Merge features

New Spell Checker Feature
* Support for Windows 64-bit OS
* Multiple languages are supported in addition to US English, for example UK English and French

Resizable Dialogs with Tabbed navigation
* Enhanced display of tabs in dialog screens
* Dialog screens can be resized to show more information

Report Writer updated with ActiveReports 9
* Improved performance
* New toolbar buttons to navigate your report page by page.
* New Pan Mode, selection mode & screenshot mode.

New Report-to-CSV Export Shortcut
* Easily export to a comma separated (CSV) file format

Changes in Commence RM version 5.0(d)

* Resolved issue with Personal Info (ME Item) preference not setting connections properly.

Changes in Commence RM version 5.0(c)

Updates:

* Office 2013 theme improvement to support cascading and tiling windows
* Calendar view improvements for work week view
* Resolved a calendar view issue when using multiple detail forms that prevent the selected form from opening
* Resolved issue with resizing Multi-view panes when it was dragged too small
* Resolved issue with the color coding Legend window, which did not display the correct number of color code entries
* Increased the DDE string length allowed for Agent Receive DDE triggers to 35 characters to match earlier Commence versions
* Resolved issue when using a calendar view as secondary view in a multi-view that caused a crash
* Updates to the database conversion which did not properly handle agent message box actions. Installing RM 5.0(c) will automatically run this conversion and update the convert.log file with any fixed agents.
* Resolved crash during workgroup syncing due to increase in number of fields per category.

Changes in Commence RM version 5.0(b)

Updates:

* Grid view improvements to support drag/drop functionality
* Grid view improvements for navigation using keyboard; view scrolls properly using the arrow keys
* Grid view improvements for fonts and formatting; wingdings font is supported
* Resolved calendar view issue in  year mode view when using color codes and Legend option
* Resolved issue with ODBC export not getting proper sizes for fields; data was truncated
* Resolved issue with export to dBASE format when filename exceeds 8 characters
* Resolved transfer out error in French RM5.0 version
* Resolved crash using the Sync Link feature.

Changes in Commence RM version 5.0(a)

Updates:

* Improved Conversion Utility --JJ070 converter DLL updates existing databases in RM 3.x or RM 4.x format to the RM 5.0 database format.
* Resolved issue where detail form connection fields did not display additional fields per the advanced connection options
* Resolved program crash on printing report style views.
* Workgroup Expert configuration is retained after the upgrade
* Proper permissions are set for the compaper.pim files so that custom paper layouts can be saved
* Commence tutorial mode uses the proper 8.0 directory in the application data directory.

Changes in Commence RM version 5.0

Updates:

* JJ070 converter DLL automatically updates existing databases in RM 3.x or RM 4.x format to the new RM 5.0 database format.
* Converter DLL handles conversion of a Commence Workgroup, including the administration WGFiles, server and client databases. Older clients are placed in error mode until they are upgraded to RM 5.0 and any pending changes are re-sent.

Database Capacity

* Database capacity increase to allow up to 250 fields per category (increased from 100 fields).
* View icon labels allow 50 characters (increased from 10 characters).

Office 2013 UI

* Updated ribbon UI, including File menu with Help and Check for Update options.

Improved support for Windows 7 and Windows 8 environments

* Changes to use INI files for application settings instead of registry settings.
* Custom page layouts (compaper.pim) stored in Application Data folder.

Fixes:

* Installer improvements to better support word macro installation for Office 365.
* Resolved issues with Microsoft Excel charting feature in Office 2013.
* Grid view focus now reverts to first record when a detail form is closed.
* Resolved issue with prefix matching in Multi-views.

Applies To

  • Commence RM 5.0(c)
  • Commence RM 5.0(b)
  • Commence RM 5.0(a)
  • Commence RM 5.0
Author: Commence
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