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