Revision History

This topic contains historical information on changes, enhancements and corrections to ezAudit by version number and date. For the most recent changes and enhancements, see the What's New topic.

Version 2.4.5.45 - 10/04/2008

1.	Enhancement. A number of dialogs have been updated to be more visually consistent in the XP and Vista operating systems. Included are the about ezAudit, registration, machine ID and password dialogs.

Fix. If a user manually edited the ezAudit preferences file and changed a station number to a single-digit value or a value of more than 2 digits, ezAudit would not correctly find an audit file for a given station date. This scenario is now correctly handled, although manual entries of more than 2 digits are truncated to the first two characters.

3.	Fix. If the host PC has more than 2GB RAM installed, the reported amount of available RAM was incorrect. On PC's running Windows 2000, XP and Vista, the correct amount of RAM is now displayed.

4.	Fix. When previewing a printed report on-screen, context help would be inadvertently triggered if the user used [Right-Click] to reduce the size of the previewed information. Context help is now suppressed in the print preview displays.

Version 2.4.4.42 - 07/03/2008

1.	Fix. A situation where the database table containing stations did not get activated if there are no stations defined has been corrected. This prevented the end-user from adding stations in the preferences area.

Version 2.4.3.41 - 05/30/2008

1.	Change. Version numbers of the "ez" series of products, including ezAudit, have been synchronized. These products share several pieces of core functionality and the version numbering change was made to reflect this.

2.	Fix. An eDatabaseError that could occur when installing and starting ezAudit for the very first time has been corrected.

3.	Fix. A spelling error on the configuration password dialog has been corrected.

Version 2.1.1.38 - 07/09/2007

1.	Enhancement. Changes have been made to the way ezAudit handles loading and saving preference information to improve performance. Improvement is particularly noticeable if ezAudit is launched from a network drive.

Version 2.1.0.36 - 06/06/20007

Change. The ezAudit preferences file is now kept in the application directory (install folder). If you updated the software using the standard installer, the installation process should have been able to move the preferences file from the Windows folder, where it had been located in previous versions. If the move failed, you can still manually copy the preferences file to the application folder.

Change. The PC characteristics considered when registering ezAudit has been changed. If you updated the software using the standard installer, the installation process automatically updated your registration. On rare occasions, the automatic update could fail, particularly you updated from a very old version of ezAudit. If the automatic registration update failed, contact your vendor to obtain a new registration key. You will need to supply the original registration serial number and machine ID information to obtain your new registration.

If you previously experienced a problem with ezAudit complaining that your registration was invalid as a result of either adding or removing a USB device that registers itself as fixed disk, you should now be able to add or remove the device without a registration error.

3.	Enhancement. ezAudit has been updated to correctly handle new 2007 DST dates and dates prior to 2007. See the topic Time Zone Information for details on DST date changes made in 2007, along with their impact on tools like ezAudit.

Fix. The date on which a switch to or from DST occurs now reports the event time (Real Time) properly. Previously, the entire day was processed using either the DST offset or standard time offset. Now, each time is evaluated to determine whether or not the target switch time has been met, generally 2:00 AM for most time zones that observe DST.

5.	Enhancement. Audit transaction and status codes specific to XStudio have been implemented. XStudio audit reports now contain information on spliced logs and user-initiated log edits from within XStudio.

6.	Change. The help documentation has been updated to work with Windows Vista. Vista does not as a default support the traditional help file (.HLP). The help documentation is now supplied as a compiled HTML file (.CHM).

Microsoft Security Update 896358 not only fixes a vulnerability in HTML Help, it prevents HTML Help files from execution if the CHM file is installed on a network drive. CHM files installed locally continue to work.

Symptoms: When you open a CHM file from a UNC path or from a network drive even if the network drive is mapped to a drive letter, the HTML Help viewer opens and instead of displaying the topic, it displays an error message "Action canceled" in the topic pane.

Solutions: Install the application on a local drive to avoid this problem. Alternatively, there are some registry changes that can be made manually to re-enable using CHM help files from a network drive. A free HTML Help Registration Utility is available at the EC Software web site.

7.	Enhancement. Users can now import/export cart category information (Cart Masks). The features are accessible via a pop-up menu on the cart category maintenance page in Preferences.

8.	Enhancement. The application event log, where details of program operation are stored, is now automatically maintained so as not to grow beyond 2MB in size. Additional detail on user actions is now placed in the event log.

9.	Enhancement. The "Function" column in audit reports will now optionally display XStudio's log record ID number. The XStudio log record ID is a unique value for a given log and follows the log record even if the record is moved.

10.	Fix. If an audit report contained invalid audio switcher data, a program AV would occur, resulting in a less than complete report display. This has been corrected.

11.	Change. The visual appearance of certain controls in the application now conform to the Windows XP look.

Version 1.1.2.22 - 06/06/2005

1.	Fix. Items with no cart number are now properly not included when using a cart number filter.

2.	Enhancement. Users can now hide the tool bar if desired. The tool bar state (visible or hidden) is saved and restored on program startup.

3.	Enhancement. Event log display and search settings are now saved on exit and restored the next time the event log is viewed.

Version 1.1.1.21 - 04/04/2005

1.	Enhancement. Minor changes have been made to support longer function names generated by XStudio. The changes do not affect reporting on standard CCC audit files.

Version 1.1.0.20 - 12/16/2004

1.	Enhancement. Multi-Day Reports have been added. You can now create an audit report that spans multiple days for a station. See the section on Multi-Day Reports for more information.

2.	Enhancement. Users can now modify or create their own data views. Functionality to edit, create, copy, and delete data views is included. See the section on User-Defined Data Views for more information.

3.	Enhancement. Users can now create custom fields and include them in custom data views. Functionality to create, edit, and delete custom fields is included. See the section on User-Defined Fields for more information.

Version 1.0.4.16 - 12/08/2004

1.	Enhancement. The ability to jump to a specific time in an audit report has been added. Pressing the [F2] key displays a dialog to enter the time to search for. The search finds the nearest match to the time entered. This option is also available from the Edit menu.

Enhancement. On-demand refresh of the data for the current audit report has been added. Pressing the [F5] will reload all audit data from the DCS or Maestro audit data file. This is useful primarily when viewing an audit report for today, where additional information may be added to the audit data file by DCS or Maestro during the time a report is being viewed. This option is also available from the Edit menu.

3.	Enhancement. Users can now enable or disable extended text logging, using the Help \| Debug Mode menu item.

4.	Enhancement. When viewing a text file, users can now search the displayed text for any combination of information. Searches can be forward or backward from current location and can be case-sensitive, if desired.

5.	Enhancement. Additional error logging has been added to better support end-users.

Version 1.0.3.15 - 12/31/2003

Enhancement. Audit report displays of relay (Din) data has been revised for enhanced readability. Relay transactions that are internal functions (relays) are now displayed as "Internal" with the DCS/Maestro function number. External relays (Bus A-D, Din 12-19) are displayed as before with the addition of the DCS/Maestro function number.

Version 1.0.2.14 - 9/27/2003

1.	Fix. Fixed a problem with audit reports not printing the last page of a report in some cases. The problem manifested itself mostly in Win9x OS's, but could also show up in Windows NT v4.

Version 1.0.2.13 - 8/27/2003

1.	Enhancement. Column widths of the audit data view are now saved when the dialog is closed, then restored at startup. Use the menu item "Help \| Reset Display Defaults" to re-set the column widths to their default values next time you start the program.

2.	Enhancement. Print preview is now available when printing an audit report. Users can choose to preview (and/or print) all data in the report or just those items that have been selected by the user.

Fix. Corrected a problem with decoding switcher information when the switcher command was for setting the Pulse Timing. ezAudit would report an error similar to "an invalid value passed to argument %n" and processing of the display data would stop, leaving the user with only a partial display of the audit data.

4.	Fix. Under unusual conditions, the audit report view would generate an error when a row with incomplete data was selected. This error would occur when data was missing from one or more columns in the row, usually as the result of an error in retrieving the information from the audit data.

Version 1.0.1.12

1.	Fix. When a user's registration expired by date, the application would close without allowing the opportunity to re-register. This has been corrected.

Version 1.0.1.11

1.	Enhancement. Minor cosmetic changes have been made to some of the dialogs for readability.

2.	Enhancement. Generating the machine ID for registration and copying the ID to the clipboard now includes the machine's name in the text copied to the clipboard. This was done to make identification of which ID is for which machine easier when registering more than one copy of the application.

3.	Enhancement. A menu item for saving reports to file has been added to the pop-up menu.

Version 1.0.1.10

1.	Enhancement. Support for Maestro station numbers that do not conform to the published specification has been added. 2-digit station numbers like "13" (instead of the documented "SD") are now supported. You can now enter any 2-character combination in a station's Station Number field in Preferences.

2.	Change. The tool bar and hinting has been re-organized to be more intuitive.

Version 1.0.0.9

1.	Fix. Printed audit reports would occasionally incorrectly identify the sort column of the report. This has been corrected.

2.	Change. The CBSI reconcile export has been updated and now works properly in situations where the user has implemented limitations in CBSI's ELR Limits section. See the section on Saved Report File Types under the CBSI item for special notes on reconciling if you have implemented limits.

3.	Fix. If the user wanted to reset the display defaults, not all saved settings were being erased. This has been corrected.

Version 1.0.0.8

Change. The SelectorTM export has been revised to match the Linker Standard Schedule Output/Input Specification, as published by RCS. You can now directly import the output file (*.INP) that is created by ezAudit. See the section on Saved Report File Types under the Selector item for instructions on how to use this file.

Version 1.0.0.6

Initial release of ezAudit.