-------------------------------------------------------- Release Notes for DrugPak Facts-on-Demand v 5.5.60615 15 June, 2006 -------------------------------------------------------- 1. Introduction -------------------------------------------------------- This text is stored in a file called DPFUPDATE.TXT. It will be installed into the program directory, so you can read or print it at your convenience. These release notes are provided to help you learn about changes to the software that have occurred too late to include in the on-line manual and help systems. Review the Contents section (next) to see if any of the Release Notes may be of interest to you. -------------------------------------------------------- 2. Contents -------------------------------------------------------- 1. Introduction (prior section) 2. Contents (this section) 3. Instructions for New Users 4. Important Notes for Current Users 5. Enhancements 6. Fixes in the CD release 7. Known Issues 8. Post-CD Fixes and Enhancements -------------------------------------------------------- 3. Instructions for New Users -------------------------------------------------------- This fully-functional software can be installed for a risk- free 30-day trial period. Please call us at 800-321-7826 if you have any questions. You can test the system with live data. If you purchase the software, you will be given a registration key to unlock the software for permanent use. You will not need to reinstall anything or re-enter any data. If you would like to evaluate DrugPak in a multi-user environment, you can install the software on your network. The recommended installation path is ...\scanlon\dp50. To set up an additional workstation to run DrugPak, follow these steps: 1) From your Start menu select Run. 2) In the "Run" window, click the "Browse" button. 3) In the "Browse" window, browse the network to locate the DP50 program directory. Click WKINST.EXE so that it is highlighted, then click the "Open" button. 4) In the "Run" window, click the "OK" button to run WKINST.EXE. 5) The workstation setup program will run. Follow the on- screen instructions to finish configuring the workstation. When running the software, press F1 at any time to instantly view a pertinent topic from the help system. A printable User's Manual in MS Word format will be installed with the software. You can access additional help features via the Help menu in the program, or via "Start |Programs | DrugPak 50 | Help" menu. If you are installing from our CD, you can also learn more about the software by watching the "Introduction" presentation. Call us at 1-800-321-7826 to schedule a complete walkthrough of the software. -------------------------------------------------------- 4. Important notices for current users ------------------------------------------------------- There are no current users at this time. -------------------------------------------------------- 5. Enhancements -------------------------------------------------------- Added option to automatically hang-up after after a report has been requested. Auto-suspend obeys DP Live auto-suspend times. The system will shut down databases and not do any work during the time period specified in "Global Settings | DP Live | Remote/auto- admin | Suspend nightly from [ ] to [ ] " Added a process to use the global default cover page (in the communication settings) for faxes and e-mail messages for any company that does not have a cover page set in their Informer company preference. A new setting prevents the user from requesting additional faxes # reports are already pending. If # or more faxes are in the queue, then the user is kicked out after a friendly message. Callers are permitted unlimited Email requests. -------------------------------------------------------- 6. Fixes -------------------------------------------------------- 01/06/2005 Fixed bug where, if the Informer Recipient has a home base assigned, DPFacts on Demand will say "sorry an error has occurred" and abort the call. -------------------------------------------------------- 7. Known Issues -------------------------------------------------------- -- Some of the waves need to be re-recorded because they sound very scratchy on better-quality voice boards. -- Callers must enter their account numbers carefully. Entering values too quickly can cause digits to be missed. -- Help files have not been written. -- Users are not yet able to change their settings. You can keep up-to-date with the latest version of DrugPak by visiting our Update page on the web: http://drugpak.com/update -------------------------------------------------------- 8. Post-CD Fixes and Enhancements -------------------------------------------------------- - Reverted to original waves to solve system crashes on some machines. Waves will be re-recorded in the future, with a test mode. - Press 7 at the main menu to play all waves. FoD will play all waves in alphabetic order. During this process, the call will not time-out. - Removed a new line of code (introduced in june) that attempted to disable Caller ID. Hopefully this will resolve the IE_NOPEN popup message. 3/27/2006 - Added a line of code to reset the data-entry "maxlength" to 11 when reaching the login prompt. 4/20/2006 - Added additional logging to track problems with max-fax limit. - Fixed a bug which under some circumstances would cause all recipient's fax numbers to be set to the same value. 5/22/2006 - Added more event and status logging messages to the Line Monitor. - Added "Profile Buffer," which allows the profiler to store up profiler information without writing to a file. If the profiler becomes enabled, then the buffer is written to the file, followed by subsequent profiler log messages. To enable the profile buffer, add the following command line parameter: PROFBUFF=#### where #### is the number of lines you wish to buffer. For example: c:\scanlon\dp50\dpfacts.exe profbuff=2000 Minimum of 500 is recommended. - The TAPI Fail event will trigger the automatic enabling of the profiler, if the buffer is enabled. This should help capture events leading up to the failure. - Previously, upon any TAPI fail message, FoD would attempt to close the connection and reset the modem into auto-answer mode. This could result in an infinite loop when the failure resulted from an attempt to auto-answer. Hardware timing appears to be the culprit. Attempted to avoid "Auto-Answer Looping" with several changes: 1) Using "PostMessage" to trigger the "CancelCall" method, rather than implementing a direct call to "CancelCall" directly in the OnFail event handler 2) Using "PostMessage" to trigger the "AutoAnswer" method, rather than implementing a direct call to "AutoAnswer" after calling "CancelCall". 3) Aborting the "CloseConnection" routine if the last status message was "Call Started." - Marking results "Seen" after listening to them: Results do not get marked "SEEN" after listening to them on FoD. To FoD, a result is "new" if the XMIT_DATE is blank. The results remain "new" because a task is never created (and then transmitted) to update the XMIT_DATE. Solution: Added a new Global Option to mark records "SEEN" after listening to them. This Global Option has no User Interface (the User Interface for toggling this setting will be provided in DP 6.0 Global Settings). This option is off by default. To add this option and turn it on, execute the following TWO queries, in order: DELETE FROM SETTINGS WHERE "KEY" = 'MarkXmittedAfterPlay'; INSERT INTO SETTINGS ("USERNAME","SECTION","KEY","VALUE") VALUES ('MASTER','FODGeneral','MarkXmittedAfterPlay','1'); You can execute these queries if you log into DrugPak as the MASTER user, and choose main menu "Tools > Advanced > Execute Query." Then paste the appropriate query(ies) into the query editor. To remove the setting (and hence turn it off), simply execute the first (DELETE) query. MECHANISM: Every time FoD "plays" a result, the RREC_ID for that result is stored in a list. When the call is over, a query is run against all the records in that list, to set the result XMIT_DATE to the system date. The update query will not modify the XMIT_DATE if it already has a value. Note: This feature will not work on the DEMO company. DEMO company results never are marked "seen." - SAPI4 support enabled, to provide Text-To-Speech capabilities. This allows FoD to read participant names when reading results. This feature is in ALPHA testing. - When reading results, the voice will indicate if the result is DILUTE.