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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

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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

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

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New display of Component details

  • More overview
  • More information

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Revision of the component log

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

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SmartCompare for COGNEX DataMan

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

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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