versiondog 5.0.0 (June 2017)¶

Highlights¶

Tagging¶

• Assignment of a common release name for versions of different components that are to be delivered together
• Marking of certain versions to simplify navigation to versions

Additional authorization levels for modules in the AdminClient¶

• Configurable access for job configuration, script management and component type editor for versiondog groups
• More security for the versiondog system

Support for links in change history¶

• Support for hyperlinks in the reason for change and in comments
• Networking of information

New display of Component details¶

• More overview
• More information

Revision of the component log¶

• Free text filter
• Extended column header filter
• Renaming and moving by new column with component ID traceable.

SmartCompare for COGNEX DataMan¶

• Detailed comparison of the DataMan configuration
• Automatic data backup for disaster recovery

Complete list of all new features in this major release¶

New features & improvements¶

General¶

• Extended support for enlarged fonts
• Security enhancements
• Web server optimizations
• Bugfix: Optimized display of rows and columns for differences in a table in the print output
• Bugfix: Consistent handling of special cases with forced lock status and comment with minimum length
• Bugfix: Cleanup of permissions of deleted components
• Bugfix: If "Show server directories" is not activated, only components that are available locally (if a folder is selected) are checked out
• Release Windows Server 2016
• Revision of labels, tooltips, error messages and usability
• Performance optimizations
• Extension of the manual

Features¶

• Tagging
• Additional authorization level with which groups can be granted access to certain modules in the AdminClient
• Support for links in the change history
• Automatic restoration of the network connection
• "New in versiondog" button in the client applications
• Display of the reason, if Maintenance mode cannot be activated
• Password can be displayed in plain text in the input field for verification
• New display of component details
• Standardized usability when deleting elements (components, jobs, component types, users, ..)
• Italian version for client applications

Component log¶

• Revision of the component log
• New column header filter
• Free text filter
• Component ID display
• Performance optimization

AutoCheckOut¶

• Optimizations and enhancements for the AutoCheckOut
• Setting the lock status with comment during AutoCheckOut
• Fix: AutoCheckOut possible with referenced standard libraries
• AutoCheckOut of a specific version

New for system and device support¶

Atlas Copco nutrunner controls¶

• Support for automatic data backup

B&R¶

• Upload support for Version 4.x
• Optimized upload logic
• Optimized comparison logic

CODESYS¶

• Support for ELAU projects
• Optimized comparison logic
• Configurable option to exclude comments from comparison
• Option to assign password/username for CODESYS V3

COPA-DATA zenon¶

• Support for version 7.5

COGNEX DataMan¶

• Detailed comparison of the DataMan configuration
• Optimized comparison logic

FANUC CNC¶

• Comparator configuration available
• Optimized comparison logic
• Optimized upload logic

KUKA robots¶

• Upload configurable in the job configuration

RSLogix 5¶

• Fixed: versiondog error codes 31102 and 20002 during Comparison

RSLogix 500¶

• Support of version 11

RSLogix 5000¶

• Support of version 30
• Improved usability when excluding the current values of variables in the Comparator configuration
• Optimized display of the "EventTag"

Schneider Unity¶

• Support of version 10

SEW Motion Studio¶

• Support of version 6.10.1
• Support of version 6.20
• Optimized comparison logic

SICK Scanner¶

• Optimized comparison logic

Siemens TIA¶

• Support of version 13 SP2
• Support of version 14
• Support of version 14 SP1
• Optimized comparison logic
• Fixed: SCL instructions are now displayed correctly

Siemens Switches¶

• Support of upload for X300

Siemens Simatic S5¶

• Fixed: Echochange with PLC header

Siemens Simatic S7¶

• AWL sources are not compared by default
• Optimized comparison logic
• Improved display
• Display of symbol comments in the LAD display

Siemens PCS7¶

• Support of version 8.2
• Improved display of LAD networks
• Optimized comparison logic
• Improved display

PC images¶

• Upload of PC images configurable in the job configuration
• Performance optimization when restoring a backup

Microsoft Office¶

• Support for Excel 2016
• Extended Comparison for graphic objects in Excel
• Support for Word 2016
• Optimized comparison logic (charts)

Wonderware System Platform (Archestra)¶

• Support for automatic data backup

New with Add-ons¶

versiondog Factory Floor Status¶

• Siemens IO modules are displayed in the S7 MLFB overview
• Devices can be hidden in the Factory Floor Status

versiondog ExportModule¶

• Export of information on how long a component with lock status is checked out
• Export of users and user groups

versiondog parallel server¶

• Optimized logic for VdogParallelserverUtil.exe
• Optimized synchronization of log entries

versiondog scripting¶

• BeforeRestore: Restoration can now be prevented using script
• AfterCheckOutS: Provision of information about the lock status

versiondog agents¶

• Caching of comparison results

versiondog standard library management¶

• Option to ignore comments and titles from the SCL compiler
• SFC support for S7