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The most important changes and features in Reliance, version 4.0.15
2008 | Reliance SCADA
Components (graphical objects)
- Optimized painting components (previously, a bigger amount of components in a window caused high CPU load)
- Fixed adding checking access rights before running scripts, actions and showing popup menus
"Reliance Design" development environment
- User Manager: disabled the controls on the "Restrictions" tab (page) if the user has the Servicing right or is a user administrator (the restrictions do not apply to such users)
- Window Manager: added the "Find Object Usages..." command
- Real-Time Trend Manager: allowed selecting tags of type "Bool" for trend series
- Project Diagnostics: added checking component position being out of the bounds of a visualization window
- Backup Project Wizard: fixed sending a project's backup file via E-mail clients Outlook 2007 and Thunderbird
- Backup Project Wizard: added saving the project before starting the wizard
- Fixed computing the check sum (hash) of project files (eliminated the dependence on the alphabetical sorting in various language versions of Windows)
Runtime software
- Fixed logging String-type tags to SQL databases
- Fixed processing the last error information in scripts running in different threads (information about the last error is now stored for each thread)
- Fixed computing the check sum (hash) of project files (eliminated the dependence on the alphabetical sorting in various language versions of Windows)
"Reliance View", "Reliance Control", "Reliance Control Server"
- Fixed running the script on loading a window configured as the initial window for a computer
- Added the "Previous Window" and "Next Window" commands to the main menu
Web Client
- "Grid" component: fixed painting
- fixed the position of modal dialog windows
- secured entering access codes
Mobile Client
- "Grid" component: fixed displaying data
The most important changes and features in Reliance, version 4.0.14
All modules
- Window templates are now transparent
- Fixed detecting a hardware key under Windows Server 2008
Components (graphical objects)
- Fixed invoking the "Close dialog window" action from some components
- Changed the way of saving components' external data
- Fixed resolving links to dynamic limits of tags for components contained in a window template
"Reliance Design" development environment
- Device Manager: added possibility to control an OPC group's state (active, inactive) by a tag
- Script Manager: added multi-line search using regular expressions
- Script Manager: added the "Thread" property for a script which allows for parallel execution of multiple scripts
- Script Manager: added the RWS.GetThinClientList method (enables you to retrieve information about thin clients connected to Reliance's data server)
- Script Manager: added the RUser.CheckUserPassword method (enables you to check a specified user's password)
- String Manager: added a transition into text edit mode using double-click
- Project Structure Manager: added the "Network (Ethernet)/Serial (RS-232,RS-485)" type of communication channel for a Modbus device
- Project Structure Manager: added the "Show menu bar" and "Show title bar" properties (computer | "Display")
- Backup Project Wizard: added the "Send Backup File via E-mail" command
- Added the "Restore Project from Backup" command ("File" menu)
- Export for remote users: added the "Enable forcing data to be updated" option
- Project Diagnostics: enhanced script diagnostics (added support for "_" at the end of a line)
- Environment Options: added proxy server settings
- Environment Options: added possibility to deactivate checking for program updates
Runtime software
- Custom reports: added the report title to HTML pages generated by the data server
- Added implementation of the RUser.CheckUserPassword method
"Reliance View", "Reliance Control", "Reliance Control Server"
- Speeded up loading window templates
- Current alarms/events: added possibility of printing
- Fixed invoking the "Close dialog window" action from a visualization window
"Reliance Control Server", "Reliance Server"
- Server Web page: added switching language (English, Czech)
- Server Web page: added switching language for historical data reports and custom reports (project languages)
- Server Web page: adjusted the look and ensured validity in compliance with W3C standards
- Added implementation of the RWS.GetThinClientList method
Web Client
- Added possibility to display information about the currently logged on user
- All program windows: added a button for closing a window (suitable for graphical environments that do not show window title bars)
- Added commands to the tool bar that were missing compared to the tool bar in the runtime software
- Added the "Update Tag Value" command to components' popup menu
- Enhanced the "System Information" dialog
Mobile Client
- Added possibility to display information about the currently logged on user
- Optimized performance: added freeing pictures that are no longer being used
Elgas communication driver
- Added support for Elcor94
- Improved checking the received data for validity
- Communication diagnostics: added further information
Modbus communication driver
- Optimized reading binary tags data from Inputs and Coils
- Communication diagnostics: added further information