Reliance 4 – Change Log

All modules

added support for the PostgreSQL database system
custom report viewer: extended saving viewer settings to a user profile
virtual keyboard: fixed the error that consisted in failing to enter numbers on the numeric keypad after pressing Shift + any key from "0" to "9" on this keypad
RELI-40409 – managers, object selection dialogs: improved searching by choosing the "Quick Filter" command

Data Tree component

fixed the error that caused detecting an invalid link to a tag despite the fact that the link to the tag was not enabled
fixed the error that consisted in automatically sorting the data tree by the specified column, although the "Automatic sorting" property was not active

Grid, Round Bar components

RELI-40440 – fixed setting some properties on the "Static" page from the component editor (only if the link to the main tag was specified)

Button component

added the "Set digital tag directly" property

Combo Box component

RELI-40451 – fixed the text color of a selected item

Edit Box component

fixed painting the component (component blinking occurred when the component's height was smaller than the size of the edit box)

Reliance Design development environment

added the "Scroll bars" property for visualization windows (scroll bars can now be displayed within individual visualization windows if the components are placed outside the visible part of the window)
all managers: fixed generating the name of objects from a CSV file (previously, the names were generated incorrectly if they contained the ";" and CRLF characters)
Data Structure Manager: added the possibility for a Schneider Modicon device to import data structures from UnityPro and SoMachine – the CSY (XML) format
Data Structure Manager: added the possibility to import data structures from TIA Portal (the SCL format)
Data Structure Manager: fixed the import of data structure array elements from the IEC EN 61131-3 format
Device Manager: added a new device type (Schneider Modicon) and the possibility to import tags from UnityPro and SoMachine
Device Manager: added a new device type – Cimon
Device Manager: added automatically incrementing the address of a tag when duplicated
RELI-40593 – Device Manager: fixed importing tags (previously, tag changes were indicated incorrectly)
Data Table Manager: added the "Physical field name" column to the detailed view of data table fields
RELI-6502 – Script Manager: periodic scripts – the repeat interval can now be greater than 23:59:59,999
Script Manager: condition scripts – the repeat interval can now be greater than 23:59:59,999
Script Manager: added the RUser.GetUserCode method, which returns the specified user's code
RELI-40723 – Picture Manager: handled editing a picture via an external editor if a project is encrypted
Custom Report Manager: fixed importing report properties from a CSV file
Custom Report Designer: fixed saving the contents of the template loaded by using the "Open Report" command to a custom report template
Action Manager: added action types: "Change user password", "Select file", and "Select directory"
Project Structure Manager: redundancy options (properties) for a computer (the "Redundancy" page) – added the possibility to adopt the properties located on the "Screen" page
Project Structure Manager: added the "Resolution" property for a computer (the "Screen" page)
Project Structure Manager: properties of a connected data table – enabled setting the "Network" option for the "Connection" property for data tables of type SQL
Project Structure Manager: added repainting visualization windows after making changes on the "Screen" page
Project Structure Manager: added the possibility for a Siemens device to specify the "Rack", "Slot", and "TSAP" properties on the "Other" page of the channel properties
Create New Project Wizard: added a step with the possibility to specify the visualization project resolution
Replace Object Properties Wizard: Data Tree component – fixed replacing object properties in all columns
Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: added the possibility to adopt the resolution from the corresponding computer in the Project Structure Manager
Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: added the "Check for changes" option, which determines whether, at project startup, to compare the checksum of the files of the running project and the project last exported for remote users (if the checksums differ, a warning will be displayed)
exporting the project for remote users: scripts (Linux, Mac OS X) for running the Web client now use the ANSI encoding
Environment Options: added the possibility to constrain the cursor to a script's text

Runtime software

added support for transferring data tables of type SQL via a server connection
added the implementation of the RUser.GetUserCode method
RELI-40673 – report viewer: fixed displaying text strings based on the program language in the summary calculations header
fixed failure to find the highest bit of a DoubleWord-type tag using the RTag.GetBit method

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

added the "Change Password" command to the main menu
historical alarms/events: changed the background color of a selected row when the window is inactive
added adjusting the size of the main window when the screen resolution has changed
added support for the "Scroll bars" property in visualization windows
increased the minimum size of windows placed in the main window (this prevents the windows from being extremely decreased)

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

data server redundancy: added support for the synchronization of SQL-based data tables
data server redundancy: secondary server – fixed adopting the project update settings from the primary server
data server redundancy: secondary server – fixed loading connected users, trends, and reports after a change is made during runtime
updated the OpenSSL libraries to version 1.0.1h, which fixes security bugs
added support for a secure connection via HTTPS on Windows 8
improved the caching of files provided by the server
added the possibility to change the logged-on user's password
server Web pages: report viewer – fixed the HTTP 404 error that occurred when opening a report if access rights were used to secure access to the server Web page
server Web pages: statistics – fixed setting the chart page size
fixed providing the values of integer-type tags with correction to Reliance OPC Server

Reliance Web Client

trend viewer: fixed the series order in a trend
custom trends: added the possibility to save individual trends under a specified name
access rights of the user logged on to the Web client are now used for opening a page on the server (user logon is not required again)
RELI-8310 – added the possibility to change the logged-on user's password
added support for actions of type "Change user password", "Select file", "Select directory"
RELI-40597 – Options dialog: added a new option named "Log Communications" (it is inactive by default)
RELI-40716 – fixed activating windows that were not loaded dynamically upon project startup
Progress Bar component: fixed displaying limits if they were not within the range of the component
Button component: added support for the "Set digital tag directly" property

Reliance Smart Client

updated libraries: jQuery 2.1.1, jQueryMobile 1.4.3, Flot 0.8.3, pickadate 3.5.3
optimized the size and number of downloaded CSS and JS files
substantially optimized the amount of data transferred when updating a window (only the contents of the changed components are now transferred)
fixed updating components placed in a window in the Internet Explorer browser
fixed displaying a Web page in the Chrome browser (the page was not displayed completely)
fixed displaying a Web page when changing the orientation on iOS in the Safari browser (the page was not displayed completely)
fixed the error that caused displaying a Web page as a "dialog"
added the possibility to change the logged-on user's password
added support for the action of type "Change user password"
improved the behavior after pressing the Enter key in the filter's edit box
alarm/event viewers: fixed filtering while the "Automatic update" option is active
trend viewer: fixed the series order in a trend
dialog for setting a tag value: added the possibility to restrict the range of the entered value and to warn of out-of-range values
fixed displaying a Web page when the initial window was of type tray
eliminated undesired component blinking when being updated
fixed the position of components when controlled by a tag
Real-Time Trend component: fixed painting labels on the time axis
added support for the Gauge component (limits are not supported)
added support for the Clock component
Internet Explorer component: avoided repeatedly downloading a Web page if the address was controlled by a tag
RELI-40627 – Check Box component: fixed setting a tag value (in few cases, it didn't work properly)
Button component: added support for the "Set digital tag directly" property

Siemens Communication Driver

fixed writing an array-type tag
fixed decoding certain float-type values
fixed the error in communication that caused a temporary connection failure when generating a communication packet longer than 255 bytes

Elgas Communication Driver

added support for writing values into tags in an Elgas2 device (for these tags, this is enabled in the Telves configuration tool)
fixed reading historical data from Elcor-94 devices

Modbus Communication Driver

added the possibility to communicate in the Modbus Slave mode

BACnet Communication Driver

fixed the error in communication that occurred when using the COV function with its activation interval set to 0

IEC62056 Communication Driver

fixed the evaluation of the comm. test interval if communication with the device is faster than specified by the interval
fixed switching the communication speed using the NVT protocol if the "Network (Ethernet)/serial (RS-232, RS-485)" channel type is selected

IEC104 Communication Driver

handled the situation when there are two devices with the same IP address and a different communication port
handled the situation when a communication packet (message) is received with no initial character

Cimon Communication Driver

a new communication driver for Cimon PLCs

SMS Driver

added removing all characters not contained in the ASCII character set from the text of a message before sending it (this only applies to the 7-bit encoding)

Example projects

associated a program language with a project language (in all projects)
VBScript is now used as a scripting language for projects with custom reports

Components with support for blinking

fixed the "Access Violation" error that sometimes occurred after releasing a window from memory if a global timer was used

Active Picture component

RELI-40605 – fixed displaying the component when the main tag's value does not correspond to any state and the project was created with a version older than 4.6.2 (the error consisted in displaying the first state's image)

Data Tree component

fixed the error that caused the unwanted sorting of branches in the tree view
fixed replacing object properties

Pipe component

component editor: translated the text string "Out-of-range value" in the English version

Runtime software

databases in MySQL: fixed saving real numbers (sporadically, the decimal part was removed)
databases in MySQL: increased the accuracy of real numbers by using a column of type Double

Components with support for blinking

fixed the "Access Violation" error that sometimes occurred after releasing a window from memory

Simple Time Program component

fixed copying the settings between individual days

Reliance Design development environment

managers: fixed the sporadic "Access Violation" error that might occur when closing a manager
RELI-40588 – Data Structure Manager: import from the ST and XML formats (IEC 61131-3) – fixed the import of data structure array elements (for imported elements, a data structure was not set up)
Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – fixed saving an SQL query in an ADO Query component (with the class name TfrxADOQuery)
Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – fixed the error that caused displaying the alarm/event column in Czech after adding an Alarm/Event Table Column Text Object component (with the class name TfrxRAEMemoView) in the English version of the development environment

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

fixed transferring changes made through the User Manager, Trend Manager, or Report Manager to the runtime software on the other computers if the source project location is specified as "Source computer + shared directory name"

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

RELI-40582 – fixed computing the check sum (hash) of project files

All modules

fixed the text color of a selected item in combo boxes

Edit Box component

component editor: translated the text string "Require confirmation" in the English version

Runtime software

fixed the sporadic error that caused not running a project when restarting it using the Reliance Remote Control Center utility
handled the situation when the "Language" option is active in the Project Structure Manager, but a valid project language is not selected

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

updated the OpenSSL libraries to version 1.0.1g (fixed the so-called Heartbleed bug); generated a new (self-signed) certificate
server Web pages: fixed the language of the current alarms/events page

Reliance Smart Client

fixed entering a time value for tags of type DateTime
fixed selecting a date using a calendar

Siemens Communication Driver

fixed loading the "TSAP PC" and "TSAP PLC" properties

All modules

added support for the MySQL and MariaDB database systems
managers: added the possibility for quick filtering
selection dialog boxes: added the possibility for quick filtering
selection dialog boxes: added saving the column sorting settings
trends, real-time trends: changed the default value of the "Clip Points" property to active (sporadically, the inactive state of the property caused drawing series outside the rectangle delimited by axes, e.g., over the title)
added support for timers controlling component blinking
trend property editor: fixed setting the "Position %" property to a value greater than 100 ("Chart > Axis > Position")
RELI-39985 – multi-state components: revised displaying component states according to the main tag's value

Vector components

RELI-2046 – added support for blinking

Animation component

added copying the "Run animation" property when copying the component

Pipe component

added support for blinking

Equithermal Curve component

fixed displaying the values of the "Output temperature falloff" and "Falloff operation start and end delay" properties on the "Operation panel" page

Data Tree component

added the possibility to set the height of the column header

Picture component

fixed the dynamic loading of SVG pictures from a file and from a Web address (URL)

Edit Box component

avoided undesirable component blinking in a window template

Internet Explorer component

altered URL dynamic control – if no address is specified, the "about:blank" address is used

Real-Time Chart component

fixed selecting tags of type Date, Time, TimeSpan (amount of time), Array of Date, Array of Time, Array of TimeSpan (amount of time) in the "Select Tag" dialog box ("Series > Data > X-value")

Real-Time Trend component

fixed automatically indenting custom vertical axes

Real-Time Trend, Real-Time Chart, Equithermal Curve components

fixed saving component settings to a user profile while loading the design settings (the Load Design Settings command at runtime)

Data Grid component

fixed the error that caused not changing array element values of tags with an index greater than 255

Axis IP Camera component

fixed the error EZeroDivide that occurred after loading a window if the mouse cursor was placed over the component

Elgas – Gas Composition component

a new component for displaying and specifying gas composition

Johnson Controls – Time Program component

fixed loading a time program from a file

BACnet – Time Program component

fixed writing a time program into a device

Reliance Design development environment

managers: added the possibility to synchronize the "Alias" property for some types of objects (tags, recipe items, real-time trend series, data table fields, trend series, recipe items)
Device Manager: added the possibility for tags to choose a script to be run after changing the value, quality, and time stamp (the "Scripts" page)
Device Manager, Data Structure Manager: added a new tag kind named "Special internal"
Device Manager, Data Structure Manager: added a new data type of special internal tags named "Active alarm count in device"
Device Manager: added the possibility to define tags of type LargeInt (64 b), Array of LargeInt (64 b) in an OPC device
Device Manager: added the "Log unsuccessful write commands to alarm/event database" property for a tag (the "Advanced" page)
Device Manager: added the "Add OPC groups to OPC server as inactive" property for an OPC device (OPC groups will be activated only after project startup)
Device Manager: added the possibility to display integer-type tags in binary format
Device Manager: added the "S7-200" and "LOGO!" models for a Siemens device
Device Manager: added the possibility for a Siemens device to import tags from TIA Portal (the XLSX format)
Device Manager: added special tags named "System date and time", "System status", and individual components of "Gas composition" for an Elgas2 device
Device Manager: allowed changing the data type and editing the bit number for a data structure field in a Siemens device if the "Field address defined by" property in the Data Structure Manager is set to "Individually"
Device Manager: added the possibility to define tags of type AI, AO, and BI in a Johnson Controls FX15 device (the "Ref" property)
Data Structure Manager: added importing data structures for Elgas2 devices from a CSV file
Device Manager, Data Structure Manager: fixed calculating the address of data structures for Teco and Wago devices if the Time or TimeSpan (amount of time) data type has been used
Trend Manager, Real-Time Trend Manager: added the possibility to localize the title of vertical axes
import of tags from an OPC server: added importing array element count for tags of type Array of String
Project Structure Manager: added the possibility for a computer to select a script to be run after successfully or unsuccessfully sending a text message
Project Structure Manager: added the possibility for a computer to choose a tag to which GSM signal quality information is to be passed
Project Structure Manager: added two new options – "230400 bd" and "460800 bd" – to the "Communication (Comm.) speed" property for SMS Driver and a communication channel
Action Manager: added the "Set tag value in multiple devices" action type
Action Manager: action of type "www link" – added the possibility to dynamically control a Web address (URL)
Action Manager: added the "Require confirmation" option on the "Security" page
Script Manager: added the RSys.GetBit and RTag.GetBit methods that return the current value of a selected bit of a specified tag.
Script Manager: added the RTag.SetBit and RSys.SetBit methods that set the value of a selected bit of a specified tag.
Script Manager: added the RTag.DecTagValue method that subtracts a specified value from the value of a numeric-type tag
Script Manager: added the RTag.IncTagValue method that adds a specified value to the value of a numeric-type tag
Script Manager: added the RSys.GetProgramLanguage method that returns the active language of the program (runtime software)
Script Manager: added the RSys.GetProjectLanguage method that returns the active language of the project
Script Manager: added the "Require confirmation" option on the "Security" page
Script Manager: fixed aligning controls in the "Outputs" pane after maximizing it
Script Manager: added VBScripts constants to the "Code Templates" pane
Script Manager: VBScripts constants are now offered by the editor
Data Table Manager: improved checking the name of a physical table and the names of the fields in the physical table
Window Manager: fixed collapsing and expanding a window folder (avoided opening the window selected in the folder)
Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – fixed the error that occurred when adding a multi-line localizable text string
Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – fixed the error that caused creating an object of the wrong type by dragging and dropping items from the "Data Tree" panel onto the report design work space
String Manager: fixed the error that caused disabling the "Edit" command after opening the manager
String Manager: added the "Multi-line Editor" command to the popup menu
RELI-40183 – Project Options: fixed changing the default value of the interval of the first timer in the list
Environment Options: fixed the error that caused incorrectly displaying information on successfully associating file types with the corresponding programs if User Account Control (UAC) is active
Environment Options: added the "Show version number in title bar" option ("Environment > General") that allows for displaying Reliance's version number at both design-time and runtime
RELI-8581 – moved the "Import array elements as separate tags" option from Environment Options to Project Options
Project Diagnostics: improved checking the name of a physical table and the names of the fields in the data table
Project Diagnostics: fixed searching for a script selected to be run on restoring the communication specified on a communication channel's "Advanced" page (Project Structure Manager)
Project Diagnostics: fixed drawing text color when multiple lines have been selected
Project Diagnostics: fixed displaying action property controls
RELI-39762 – fixed the error that caused not selecting the right localizable text string if the same string had been defined for multiple localizable strings
RELI-39978 – improved accessing the main window menu from a visualization window if the visualization window is maximized
Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: fixed exporting multimedia files with diacritics in their names
Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: fixed positioning components in Smart Client if the scroll bars in the visualization window were in a non-zero position when exporting the project
RELI-40153 – Replace Object Properties Wizard: added the "Show performed replacement count" option

Runtime software

RELI-8680 – added transferring changes made through the User Manager, Trend Manager, or Report Manager to the runtime software on the other computers (e.g., adding a new user)
data tables in an SQL database: the "TimeStamp" column set as the primary key
data tables in an SQL database: added an index on the "TimeStamp2" column
substantially accelerated loading historical data and alarms/events from an SQL-based database
fixed calculating the address of data structures for Teco and Wago devices if the Time or TimeSpan (amount of time) data type has been used
IEC104 devices: added/fixed generating alarms/events linked to internal tags
sending alarms/events via text and email messages: avoided the multiple sending of a message to a single phone number
stopped logging some information to an alarm/event database: a message about en error in a script; notifying the user that write operations cannot be performed (e.g., because a tag is not intended for writing)
added the evaluation of tag quality based on a time stamp even for special tags
added the implementation of the following methods: RSys.GetBit, RTag.GetBit, RTag.SetBit, RSys.SetBit, RTag.IncTagValue, RTag.DecTagValue, RSys.GetProgramLanguage, and RSys.GetProjectLanguage
data tables: periodic data reading with a time stamp from a device – avoided the situation when no data from a device is received after sending a request (added resetting the previous request's flag once half of the interval has expired)
data tables: altered periodic sampling – the first record after project startup can be created only after the expiration of the specified sampling interval
fixed loading information (after project startup) on the last record in the data table stored in a SQL database
trend viewer: fixed aligning axes of series via the trend editor
added support for the Slovenian language

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

fixed handling the action of type "Execute actions" so that it would work even if it is invoked by a keyboard shortcut
“Note Related to Alarm/Event” dialog: allowed changing the size of the window

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

fixed providing files by the HTTP server (sporadically, the server sent an empty file, which might have caused problems, for example, when running the Web client)
server Web pages: report viewer – fixed the error that caused a data table record with a time stamp corresponding to the upper limit of a displayed time interval to be shown within the previous interval
fixed the error of the action of type "Play sound" that caused it to not stop playing a sound
report viewer: added support for scrolling pages with the mouse wheel
added logging information on connecting/disconnecting Smart Client
added the IP address of a thin client to the information on the thin client's user log-on and log-off
server Web pages: report viewer – fixed the error that caused displaying the wrong time range in the navigation tree view
server Web pages: improved the help system for the custom application interface of the Web service (added method syntax)

Reliance Web Client

added support for displaying internal alarms/events
added support for confirming prior to executing actions and running scripts
added support for synchronizing the "Alias" property for some types of objects
added support for displaying a tag value in binary format
added support for the Simple Time Program component
added support for the Equithermal Curve component
Picture component: added support for loading an external picture from a Web address (URL)
Line component: added support for displaying different line styles
vector components, Pipe component: added support for blinking
Real-Time Trend, Real-Time Chart components, trend viewers: fixed displaying the stair-like shape of the curve (the "Stairs" property)
Button component: fixed the error that caused the momentary button to stay pushed in upon quickly pressing and releasing the mouse button
trend viewers: a tag value in the legend is displayed with respect to hexadecimal format of the tag
trend viewers: fixed displaying some duplicate data in a trend (which affected the appearance of a bar trend)
avoided blinking a tag value, which sporadically happened after writing a new value into a physical tag
fixed the error that consisted in removing a line break when writing a note related to an alarm/event
fixed executing actions invoked by pressing a key
added support for the Slovenian language

Reliance Smart Client

updated libraries: jQuery 2.1, jQueryMobile 1.4.2, Flot 0.8.2, pickadate 3.3.2
added options for displaying the Web page ("Responsive", or "Desktop")
added support for displaying internal alarms/events
added support for confirming prior to executing actions and running scripts
added support for displaying a tag value in binary format
fixed the error that might have caused a component's text to be displayed outside the component area
improved the behavior when the project graphical resolution is higher than the browser resolution (the visualization can be scrolled)
added support for selecting a date using a calendar
added support for actions of type "www link" with a tag-controlled Web address (URL)
added support for the BACnet – Time Program component
Picture component: added support for loading an external picture from a Web address (URL)
Edit Box component: added support for entering values (so far, the component has only displayed a tag value)
Text component: added support for the vertical alignment of text
Active Text component: added support for the vertical alignment of text
Teco – Time Program component: fixed writing data from an on/off (two-state) time program
button-type components: fixed displaying multi-line (word-wrapped) text
vector components, Pipe component: fixed the sporadic error that caused the components to be positioned incorrectly
Internet Explorer component: fixed navigating if the Web address (URL) has changed into an empty string
Display component: fixed foreground and background colors when exceeding or falling below the limit
Progress Bar component: fixed displaying vertically
components displaying text: fixed displaying the font whose name contains the at sign (e.g., @Arial Unicode MS)
fixed the caching of JS and CSS files by the browser
fixed the sporadic error that caused alarms/events from other configurations to be displayed
fixed the sporadic error that caused details on the wrong alarm/event to be displayed
trend viewer: handled the error that caused a trend to be displayed twice on Android 4.1 (it is an Android bug)

Reliance Mobile Client

added support for displaying internal alarms/events
added support for confirming prior to executing actions and running scripts
vector components, Pipe component: added support for blinking

Communication drivers

fixed checking the maximum time period for a dial-up connection
fixed repeatedly dialing up a device
added a time delay after changing communication parameters via an NVT command
handled the situation when a communication port failed to open while changing communication channel parameters via an NVT command

Elgas Communication Driver

added the reading of an Elgas2 device's daily archive
added time synchronization
fixed decoding an address during communication in the server mode
fixed changing the quality of a special physical tag of type Gas composition to good once the connection with an Elgas2 device is interrupted and reestablished

Modbus Communication Driver

fixed the error that occurred while reading more than one tag via a single communication packet from the extended memory
fixed exchanging (swapping) the byte order for the "Inteli Drive DCU" and "FlowX" models when writing data into a tag of type String
RELI-40243 – fixed reading Coils and Inputs through a communication zone that must be 8 bits longer than it is necessary for proper reading

MBus Communication Driver

fixed decoding a 3-byte integer

AMiT Communication Driver

fixed writing a digital-type tag that lies within the sign bit of a substitution tag

Siemens Communication Driver

added support for the "S7-200" and "LOGO!" models
avoided exceeding the maximum length of a communication packet (255 bytes)
fixed writing tags of type Integer and LongInt

Promos Communication Driver

fixed updating a tag after writing data

BACnet Communication Driver

fixed decoding data
fixed the error that occurred while decoding a tag with the weekly-schedule or priority-array property identifier
fixed decoding a tag of type Float

SMS Driver

added the possibility to pass GSM signal quality information to a tag defined within the visualization project
added support for running scripts after successfully or unsuccessfully sending a text message

Utilities

RDT File Editor: added support for selecting multiple lines
Project Converter: inactivated the property for enabling linking components to other objects (e.g., popup menu) if no object is selected

Example projects

added the following projects: LogDataToMySQL, IEC104, Modbus, CustomReport_GasReport, CustomReport_ProductionLine, FTP, WindowTypes
renamed the project OPC_EmbeddedServer to OPC_RemoteServer

All modules

fixed automatically activating a time-limited license stored in the software key
RELI-39306, RELI-4969, RELI-39147 – added support for the following new data types: Date, Time, TimeSpan (amount of time), Array of Date, Array of Time, Array of TimeSpan (amount of time)

All components

fixed saving component settings to a user profile while terminating the project
added logging information about failure to read/write component settings from/to a user profile

Vector components

RELI-39495 – fixed the error that caused the component's width and height to be decreased by 1 pixel

Display component

added the "Require confirmation" property that applies to entering a new value for the main tag

Button component

added the "Require confirmation" property that applies to entering a new value for the main tag
fixed the vertical centering of word-wrapped text
avoided showing a hand-shaped cursor (pointer) over the component when it is disabled

Text, Active Text components

added the possibility to specify the vertical alignment of text

Check Box component

component editor: added the possibility to select text strings for queries shown before setting the value of the main tag

Equithermal Curve component

fixed the error that occurred after writing data if the window containing the component was freed from memory before the time determined by the "Update timeout" property elapsed
fixed the error that caused the curve line width to grow after the window was freed from memory if data changes had not been saved

Data Grid component

set the right column header style
fixed the "Restore Defaults" command so that it would also restore the order of columns

Media Player component

added a new player type – "VLC media player"
RELI-1828 – added the possibility to control the name of the file to be played by a tag
fixed loading visualization windows containing this component if Windows Media Player is not installed on the computer

Data Tree component

fixed saving column size and order to a user profile
fixed executing double-click actions for cells not linked to a tag
fixed updating data in cells
fixed the "Restore Defaults" command so that it would also restore the order of columns

Progress Bar component

RELI-39575 – fixed detecting the bad quality (invalid value) of the main tag's dynamic limits

Picture component

added the possibility to load the picture from a Web address (URL)

Combo Box component

RELI-3925, RELI-39484 – fixed text color at runtime (if it was different from the default color)
fixed showing the default query before setting the value

Container component

RELI-39425 – trend: fixed setting the time axis range so that the trend would display the latest data (sporadically, the range wasn't correctly updated after loading the trend settings from a user profile and the trend displayed old data)

Johnson Controls – Time Program, Johnson Controls – Holiday Program, Sauter – Time Program, Sauter – Holiday Program, BACnet – Time Program, Teco – IRC components

fixed securing the components by access rights

BACnet – Time Program component

added the possibility to add a new event by double-clicking a blank cell
fixed the appearance of the editor, the editor is no longer resizable

Sauter – Time Program, Sauter – Holiday Program components

added a query before writing data to a device

Reliance Design development environment

managers: added displaying objects imported with an error in a different color than other imported objects
Device Manager: added replacing links to tags when duplicating a device (e.g., replacing dynamic limits of tags, alarm inhibitor tag)
Device Manager: added replacing links to tags when copying objects (tags, communication zones, alarms/events) from one device and pasting them into another (e.g., replacing dynamic limits of tags, alarm inhibitor tag)
Device Manager: added the "Show milliseconds" property for a tag (the "Advanced" page)
Device Manager: export/import of tags to/from the CSV format – added the "Tag data type" property (for an IEC104 device) and the "Allow reading" and "Allow writing" properties (for all device types)
RELI-2193 – Device Manager: disabled the "OPC ItemID" property for structured tags in an OPC device if it's not used
Device Manager: added a new device type – Siemens – for Siemens PLCs (SIMATIC S7-300, S7-400, and S7-1200)
Device Manager: added a new device type – IEC62056 – for telemetry systems that support the IEC 62056-21 communication protocol (standard)
Device Manager: added the "Reset message counters when data transfer interrupts" property for an IEC104 device
fixed exporting/importing some properties of an IEC104 device to/from the CSV format
Device Manager: added the "Flow-X" model for a Modbus device; adjusted communication to this model, beyond the Modbus standard
RELI-39305 – Device Manager: fixed saving the order of bottom list view columns when closing the manager
Device Manager: added the possibility to import tags to an Elgas2 device from a CSV file generated by the Telves configuration tool
Data Structure Manager: added the possibility to define data structures for a Siemens device
Data Structure Manager: altered importing data structures from the ST IEC6113-3 format so that the following information would be ignored: directives enclosed in braces – {}, program code beginning with the BEGIN directive, and declaration of local structured variables in the VAR_TEMP section
Communication Driver Manager: added the "Interval between reception and transmission", "Maximum communication error count", and "Communication error count before reset comm. channel" properties for the BACnet driver
Data Table Manager: added the "Max. time difference" for a data table that is related to reading time-stamped data from a device (the "Basic" page)
Trend Manager, Real-Time Trend Manager: fixed the series color when importing series from the CSV format
Trend Manager: added a new trend type named "Area"
Real-Time Trend Manager: added the possibility to control the vertical axis range (scale) by a tag
Real-Time Trend Manager: added automatically activating the "Stairs" property for series linked to a digital tag, which results in the stair-like shape of the curve
Script Manager: added the "Go to Line Number" command
String Manager: fixed the resizing of the rightmost column
RELI-39324 – Window Manager: fixed renaming a window when only letter case changed
Action Manager: added action types: "Connect", "Disconnect", "Show options", "Custom trend"
Project Structure Manager: added the "Screen" page for a computer
RELI-2768 – Project Structure Manager: added new properties for setting up the main window's position and size for a computer (the "Screen" page)
Project Structure Manager: added new properties for setting up the display on multiple monitors (the "Screen" page)
Project Structure Manager: changed the default value of the "Show window border" property of a computer (now inactive by default)
Project Structure Manager: enabled the "Online" property for connected devices of type OPC, DDE, Generic, M-Bus, and M-Bus Sensonic Plus
Project Structure Manager: outgoing E-mail configuration (the "E-mail" page) – added the possibility to send a test message in order to check if the settings are correct
Project Structure Manager: communication channel properties – changed enabling/disabling controls based on the "Accept connections in server mode only" property
Project Structure Manager: communication channel properties – enabled the "Advanced" page for a connected Inmat device
Backup Project Wizard: added the possibility to preset the E-mail address of the project backup recipient
Backup Project Wizard: fixed overwriting an existing backup file
Restore Project from Backup Wizard: fixed displaying the path to files being restored
Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: added the possibility to show/hide selected configurations on the Web page
Custom Report Designer: fixed showing the help (previously, it was shown in the background – behind the development environment)
Project Diagnostics: added the possibility to detect objects that are not connected to any computer via the Project Structure Manager
RELI-39407 – Project Diagnostics: added the "Disallow Use at Runtime" command to the popup menu in the "Diagnostics Results" window
finding object usages: Active Text component – fixed the description of the object of type String
Project Options: added refreshing the edited item name in the list of items (e.g., SQL connections, Alarm/event groups)
Project Options: added the possibility to define timers
Environment Options: fixed associating files types with Reliance utilities
added the "Create Window Template" and "Replace Object Properties" commands to the Edit menu (previously, they were only available in the popup menu of a design window and could not be assigned a shortcut)
altered switching between windows by using the "Window > Next" and "Window > Previous" commands – now only open (visible) windows are switched

Runtime software

tags in offline devices are no longer loaded by communication drivers – if the "Save last value" property of a tag is active, the value is not lost when the project is restarted (previously, when the project was restarted, the last value was overwritten by a zero/empty value retrieved from the driver)
databases in Microsoft SQL Server: added setting the AutoClose option to Off (False) after creating a database or before writing data to a database for the first time (this substantially speeds up connecting to the database)
databases in Microsoft SQL Server: changed the default timeout values – SQL Server connection timeout = 30 s (previously 15 s), command timeout = 600 s (previously 30 s)
custom reports: Alarm/Event Table Column Text Object (with the class name TfrxRAEMemoView) – fixed displaying localizable strings based on the project and program language
custom reports: fixed the error that caused the "RDT Table" object to not include the last record of the physical table
added logging project update progress

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

report viewer: fixed the error that might have occurred after closing the viewer if the user canceled generating a report preview including summary calculations
added logging information about failure to read/write component settings from/to a user profile
report viewer: fixed handling the error that can occur when saving the settings to a user profile (previously, the viewer could not be closed when an error occurred)
report viewer: fixed restoring the default summary calculations settings after user log-off
report viewer: fixed displaying text strings based on the current program language in summary calculation results
added automatically showing scroll bars if the project's graphical resolution is bigger than the size of the main window of the runtime software
trend viewer: added the possibility to display a cross instead of the ruler (the "Ruler/Cross" option)
allowed starting the project through a shortcut if it is already running as a service (in Reliance Server)
improved the list of recent projects (also updated if a project is run from Reliance Design)
fixed the display of the system menu and icons in the title bar if the main window has hidden borders
added enabling/disabling the "Server Web Page" command based on the logged-on user
fixed handling the action of type "Close dialog window" so that it would work even if it is invoked by a keyboard shortcut

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

fixed checking the thin client session expiration time when processing a request took longer than the session timeout
server Web pages: report viewer, custom report viewer – fixed the Web page language
server Web pages: report viewer – fixed generating the time range displayed in the navigation tree view
server Web pages: optimized hard disk access count (Web page templates are now loaded into memory)
server Web pages: enlarged the font to improve readability
added logging the name of the user that logged on (previously, the user name was missing in the log message)
commands received from thin clients: added the thin client IP address to the message about setting the value of a tag

Reliance Web Client

program files are now signed with a certificate from a trusted certification authority (Thawte)
handled the position of the main window after startup so that it wouldn't be outside the screen area
added support for new action types: "Connect", "Disconnect", "Show options", "Custom trend"
fixed handling the action of type "Close dialog window" so that it would work even if it is invoked by a keyboard shortcut
added a command for displaying a custom trend (the possibility to select data table fields to be displayed)
trend viewer: added support for a separate vertical axis for each series
trend viewer, Real-Time Trend component: added automatically activating the "Stairs" property for series linked to a digital tag, which results in the stair-like shape of the curve
Display, Button components: added support for the "Require confirmation" property that applies to entering a new value for the main tag
Container component: trend – fixed the sporadic error that caused data not to be displayed if there were multiple Container components used for embedding a trend
Notepad component: fixed enabling/disabling entering text and toolbar actions
added support for the Pelco IP Camera component
added saving the position and size of the object selection dialog
added sharing the settings of a trend among the trend viewer and Container components
fixed activating a window configured to be placed in a specified position
fixed activating a window if there are already many windows loaded in memory
fixed displaying reports/custom reports when a thin client builds an invalid URL
fixed playing alarm/event sounds on some computers
components: avoided showing a hint when it is disabled
fixed the display of text strings in the user interface if the program language is set to Turkish
fixed the caching (provided by Java Plugin) of Web client program files

Reliance Smart Client

updated libraries: jQueryMobile 1.3.2, jQueryMobile DateBox 1.3.0
changed the main menu to a popup window (displaying the menu does not require reloading the page)
substantially optimized the number of downloaded pictures
added the preloading of pictures (when a picture is to be displayed, it is available immediately)
added the "Previous" and "Next" commands to the toolbar
alarm/event viewers, trend viewer: added saving the settings
trend viewer: fixed the time stamp displayed based on the ruler position
trend viewer, Real-Time Trend component: added automatically activating the "Stairs" property for series linked to a digital tag, which results in the stair-like shape of the curve
all components: added support for performing multiple operations on a mouse click (e.g., activating a window, executing an action, and running a script)
all components: fixed handling mouse events that occurred over multiple overlapping components
all components: added support for the taphold event (tapping and holding for a longer time) – it brings up a context menu
Check Box, Combo Box components: added support for showing a query before setting the value of the main tag
Display, Button components: added support for the "Require confirmation" property that applies to entering a new value for the main tag
button-type components: fixed the display of the button in the disabled state
Animation component: fixed the error that resulted in sending a lot of requests to the server
Combo Box component: fixed setting the value of the main tag
Edit Box component: fixed the position of the component when the label is hidden
Internet Explorer component: the referenced Web page is now embedded into the window's page
added support for the Pelco IP Camera component
added checking bounds when entering a new value for a tag (the value must be within the bounds)
fixed dynamic visibility for components in a window template
fixed the error that consisted in not returning to the previous page after entering a new value for a structured tag
fixed running a script/showing a popup menu when clicking the window
fixed the error that caused not displaying some components' pictures in tray windows
fixed the error that caused not displaying the Smart Client page if the initial window was secured by access rights

Reliance Mobile Client

Display, Button components: added support for the "Require confirmation" property that applies to entering a new value for the main tag

Communication drivers

added logging information to separate files during communication over UDP while using the same transmission port but different reception ports for multiple communication channels
fixed the error that occurred as a result of repeatedly loading a project in the communication driver without ending the driver each time the project terminated
fixed automatically switching over to a secondary (backup) channel (except for the Teco and IEC104 drivers)
fixed the detection of a communication error on a secondary (backup) channel
Teco, Modbus, Wago: added support for the following new data types: Date, Time, TimeSpan (amount of time), Array of Date, Array of Time, Array of TimeSpan (amount of time)
fixed the error that might have occurred during driver termination after terminating a project containing a communication channel of type Dial-up (modem)
RELI-39326 – a tag is updated even when a write request is waiting in the request queue
fixed repeatedly sending a command (writing a tag) after establishing a connection to a device (except for the QMD driver) – this only happened if the connection to the device was controlled by a tag and if the write request was received when the connection was not established

Elgas Communication Driver

fixed reading the current value of the CounterBase converted volume (it is not multiplied by Digit)
added more detailed logging of reading the parameters

IEC104 Communication Driver

fixed decoding received data during communication over TCP if the data comes divided into multiple packets (messages)
fixed working with the "Maximum unacknowledged I-frame count" and "Received I-frame acknowledgment timeout (T2)" properties
added deleting counters when the device closes the connection
altered the processing of received data so that the driver would accept time-stamped data even for tags having a non-time-stamped type identifier and vice versa
the value of tags having a read type identifier of M_ME_NA_1, M_ME_TD_1, M_ME_ND_1 and write type identifier of C_SE_NA_1, P_ME_NA_1 is now converted to the Float data type in the range -1..+1
fixed decoding the value for digital tags – only the zeroth bit (SPI), which contains the information, is used
RELI-39367 – avoided repeating commands (writing a tag)
RELI-39356 – fixed writing a tag when using the qualifier (whether the qualifier is used or not depends on the type identifier for writing)
fixed writing a tag with a normalized value
RWE model: fixed passing a tag's qualifier when calling the Update function
fixed updating received data even if receiving a type identifier intended for writing

Modbus Communication Driver

fixed the memory error that occurred when updating (reading) a tag of type Array of Word or Array of DoubleWord with an odd number of elements and the device's "Swap words" property was active
fixed the error that occurred when loading a project containing a tag of type Array of LargeInt
added the "Flow-X" model; adjusted communication to this model, beyond the Modbus standard

Siemens Communication Driver

a new communication driver for Siemens PLCs (SIMATIC S7-300, S7-400, and S7-1200)

IEC62056 Communication Driver

a new communication driver for telemetry systems that support the IEC 62056-21 communication protocol (standard)

Generic Communication Driver

fixed the error that occurred when loading a project not containing a tag of type Input buffer

BACnet Communication Driver

added handling the "Interval between reception and transmission", "Maximum communication error count", and "Communication error count before reset comm. channel" properties

Teco Communication Driver

added a priority update of an array-type tag after writing an array element

Utilities

R_DTWriter utility: fixed reading command line parameters passed to the program

Installation program

added hardware key driver setup files and the "HASP Key Driver Setup" shortcut in the Start menu (in the Reliance 4\Tools folder)

All modules

added support for pictures in the SVG format

All components

added showing a hand-shaped cursor (pointer) over all components that respond to a mouse click

Level Fill Picture component

fixed handling pictures in the WMF and EMF formats

Button-type components

graphical button: added the "Layout" property – added the possibility to change the way of displaying the state pictures if the picture and component sizes differ

Container component

added copying some properties when duplicating the component
added the possibility to embed a control that displays an online packet list for a selected communication channel (the "Embedded object" property = "Communication channel")

Real-Time Trend, Real-Time Chart, Equithermal Curve components

added the "Print Trend" (or "Print Chart") command to the component's popup menu

Real-Time Trend component

fixed adjusting the vertical axis range (scale)

Real-Time Chart component

component editor: extended the set of tag data types (that can be used to define series points) by the DateTime and Array of DateTime types

Data Grid component

added the possibility to execute actions and run scripts
component editor: added the possibility to add multiple columns at a time
added the possibility to display a popup menu when the component is clicked

Data Tree component

added a new cell type named "Progress bar"
added the "Enable setting value" property for a cell
renamed the "Execute action" command to a more descriptive name (action type name)
cell of type Display: changed the way of painting a transparent background
fixed pasting a node (previously, it was allowed to paste a node only once)
fixed sorting by text when the "Use cell alias or name" property of a node was active and the alias was not specified

Axis IP Camera, Vivotek IP Camera components

added the possibility to control the directory (path) for saving video files by a tag

Axis IP Camera component

fixed recording video when the media type was set to mjpeg

Johnson Controls – Time Program component

fixed closing the editor dialog by the OK button

Sauter – Time Program component

runtime editor dialog: fixed displaying the toolbar on Windows XP

Sauter – Holiday Program component

runtime editor dialog: fixed displaying the toolbar on Windows XP
runtime editor dialog: fixed the progress bar position
runtime editor dialog: fixed painting the focused column

Vector components

fixed the background color when painting certain fill styles, e.g., grid (previously, the background was always black)

Reliance Design development environment

added a warning that displays if the project being opened has been saved/modified with a later version of the development environment
RELI-8710 – in certain dialog windows, set the default button for confirming or closing the window using the keyboard
managers: added displaying newly imported objects in a different color than the other imported objects
RELI-38970 – managers: import from the CSV format – fixed importing text strings associated with imported objects (previously, the same string might have been added if the default language was not the first language in the list)
Action Manager: added the "Minimize main window" action type
Action Manager: added the "Execute actions" action type
Action Manager: improved the GUI for action type selection
Action Manager: added the "Generate Name" command that renames the selected action(s) based on its (their) properties
RELI-8860 – String Manager: fixed finding strings
Device Manager: added the "Generate Name" command that renames the selected alarm/event(s) based on its (their) properties
Trend Manager, Real-Time Trend Manager: added automatically generating a unique color for a newly added series
Trend Manager, Real-Time Trend Manager, Report Manager, Data Structure Manager: improved displaying series/item order
RELI-8652 – Report Manager: added the "Word wrap" property for a report item (the "Title" page)
Communication Driver Manager: added the "Maximum packet count for writing into one device" property – the default value is 1000; value of 0 – the feature is not active
Communication Driver Manager: added the "Number of days for which log files are kept on disk" and "Maximum log file size" properties
Device Manager: added the possibility to define tags of type WideString (UCS-2), Array of WideString (UCS-2) in an OPC device
Device Manager: added the possibility to import tags into an AMiT device from an ini file (DB.ini, SW.ini)
Device Manager: added automatically generating a unique address (WID) for tags of type other than Bool in an AMiT device
Device Manager: added checking the address (WID) to be unique for tags of type other than Bool in an AMiT device
Device Manager: added checking the address of tags in a Wago device
Device Manager: added automatically deactivating the "Allow writing" option for tags in a Wago device when "Register type" is changed to "%Q"; the same logic is applied when importing tags
Device Manager: added the "Elster Instromet" and "Pemit Datalogger" models for a Modbus device
Device Manager: added the "Daniel 2350" model for a Modbus device; in this model, a tag is always counted as a single element, i.e., also Float and LongWord
Device Manager: added the "Itron Cyble" model for an MBus device
Device Manager: fixed updating the drop-down list of the "Quantity (VIFE1)" property of tags in an MBus device after opening the manager
Data Structure Manager: import from the ST format – handled the situation when the data type definition is not ended with the END_TYPE directive (in that case, the program ends importing type definitions when it encounters the VAR_GLOBAL directive)
Data Table Manager: changed the default archive file type for data tables to "Daily"
Script Manager: added the RSys.SetMonitorPower method, which sets the state of the monitor (display)
Script Manager: added the RSys.GetUTCDateTime method, which returns the current system date and time (expressed in UTC)
Script Manager: added the RSys.IsPrimaryServer method, which determines whether the computer on which the project is running is configured in the project as the primary server (when using redundancy)
Script Manager: added the RSys.IsSecondaryServer method, which determines whether the computer on which the project is running is configured in the project as the secondary server (when using redundancy)
Script Manager: added the RSys.IsActiveServer method, which determines whether the computer on which the project is running currently has the active role (when using redundancy)
Project Structure Manager: allowed editing the number of data bits and stop bits of a communication channel of type Serial (COM port) also for device types other than Generic
Project Structure Manager: added the redundancy options (properties) for a computer (the "Redundancy" page)
Project Structure Manager: stopped disabling the "Comm. timeout" property of a Generic device's communication channel of type Network (Ethernet) (the property value is now considered)
RELI-8133 – Project Structure Manager: added the "Log alarm/event text" property for a computer (the "Alarms/Events" page)
Project Structure Manager, User Manager: added the "Disable Postmort Record Player" property for a computer and a user (the "Restrictions" page)
Project Diagnostics: fixed checking a DDE device's communication channel properties
Project Diagnostics: added checking window templates for circular references
RELI-7991 – Project Diagnostics: altered (made more specific) the error description if detecting missing nested tags or invalid links to data structure fields
RELI-4021, RELI-8116 – Project Diagnostics: added the possibility to bulk delete unused objects
Project Options: changed the default archive file type for the alarm/event database to daily (Alarms/Events | Database | File-based)
Project Options: added the possibility to explicitly enable/disable the custom application interface of the Web service (Web)
Environment Options: added the possibility to restore the default position and size of tool windows (Window Layout)
Environment Options: added the possibility to associate file types with the corresponding programs even if User Account Control (UAC) is active
design window: fixed the error that could cause the loss of information when opening a project with a version earlier than the one the window was saved with
design window: added guidelines for aligning components by the center
design window: fixed the "Select All (Ctrl+A)" command (previously, it also selected components located on hidden layers)
RELI-8681 – design window: fixed UTF-8 encoding/decoding when loading a window
design window: fixed setting the window title after importing a window
Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: added checking the data server address before running the Web client upon the completion of the export for remote users
Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: added the "Enable concurrent user logon" option
Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: added the possibility to control enabling sending commands to devices from thin clients by a tag
Export for Remote Users Wizard, Project Options: changed the GUI for selecting the screen resolution
"Project" > "Register As Service" command: added dependence on the Reliance 4 Driver Server service
"Tools" menu: added the "Open Log File Folder" command

Runtime software

added the possibility to execute an action after running a project (after project startup)
added the implementation of the following methods: RSys.SetMonitorPower, RSys.GetUTCDateTime, RSys.IsPrimaryServer, RSys.IsSecondaryServer, and RSys.IsActiveServer
added performing an analog/digital value correction (if it is active for a tag) before processing historical data received from a (native) communication driver
IEC104 devices: added generating alarms/events linked to tags that are not time-stamped

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

Project Manager: fixed folders shown only under the current computer
historical alarms/events: added the possibility to automatically update the content (the "Auto-Update" option on the toolbar)
alarm/event viewers: added the possibility to display the "Note Related to Alarm/Event" field in a separate column
RELI-8486 – fixed blocking the Windows Start menu (if the "Disable Start menu" option is active) on 64-bit Windows
added checking the fixed size of the main window specified in the project's main file (if the height/width exceeds the current screen resolution, it is decreased respectively)

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

added support for redundancy (limitation: currently, the program cannot replicate/synchronize data tables stored in an SQL database)
added stopping the Web server when the project is terminated
added logging information about user log-on and log-off from a thin client
server Web pages: statistics – added regular saving to hard disk
server Web pages: statistics – added a new chart displaying the history of hard disk free space
server Web pages: devices and tags – added displaying tags nested in structured tags
server Web pages: report viewer – fixed the display in the English version (colors and fonts in the header and navigation tree-view)
server Web pages: report viewer – added the possibility to export a report to the following formats: HTML, CSV, PDF, XLS, XLSX, and XML
server Web pages: report viewer – fixed considering locale settings when a report is opened from the Web client

Reliance Web Client

added support for associating a program language with a project language
added disabling printing based on security restrictions
historical alarms/events: fixed sporadic displaying duplicate alarms/events
alarm/event viewers: fixed formatting the tag value nested in alarm/event text (previously, the decimal part was not displayed)
alarm/event viewers: by default, alarms/events are now sorted by Start Date/Time
trend viewer: added the possibility to choose chart page size units (hours, days)
trend viewer: fixed the error that consisted in displaying a blank chart (the problem might have occurred when quickly switching between trends)
trend viewer: fixed disabling customizing a trend based on security restrictions
added support for the "Minimize main window" action type
added support for the "Execute actions" action type
added showing a title bar in visualization windows (if enabled)
main window: added information about (possible) failure to connect to the data server
added support for pictures in the SVG format
RELI-39225 – all components: fixed painting text using symbol fonts (Wingdings, Webdings, etc.)
button-type components: graphical button – added the possibility to change the way of displaying the state pictures if the picture and component sizes differ
Data Tree component: added support for the "Enable setting value" property of a cell
Data Tree component: fixed the sporadic error that consisted in not updating the values in cells of type Display
Data Tree component: fixed the error that consisted in not allowing the user to set/enter tag values if editing the tree structure was not enabled
Data Tree component: fixed considering the "Allow changing sorting" property (previously, it was ignored)
Data Tree component: fixed the error that consisted in wrong sorting if cells of type Display contained the value of a string-type tag
Data Tree component: added support for the "Progress bar" cell type
Data Tree component: added support for setting tag values through cells of type Active text, Active picture, and Progress bar
Data Tree component: renamed the "Execute action" command to a more descriptive name (action type name)
Data Tree, Data Grid components: eliminated undesired component blinking after opening its parent window
Data Tree, Data Grid components: fixed setting the selected row controlled by a tag if the row index was greater than the row count
Data Tree, Data Grid components: fixed painting the header
Data Tree, Data Grid components: fixed aligning text in the header
Data Tree, Data Grid components: added a popup menu command for restoring the default size of columns
Data Grid component: added the possibility to execute actions, run scripts, and display a popup menu
Data Grid component: added support for controlling the selected column by a tag
Data Grid component: added support for multi-line (word-wrapped) text
Data Grid component: fixed the background color in places where there are no cells
Popup Menu component: fixed the error that consisted in showing separators that were not defined at design time
Real-Time Trend, Real-Time Chart components: added support for printing
Real-Time Trend component: fixed the error that consisted in ignoring the vertical axis settings from the Real-Time Trend Manager
Real-Time Trend component: fixed the series order so that it would correspond to the order defined through the Real-Time Trend Manager
Real-Time Chart component: fixed displaying series of type Area
Real-Time Chart component: fixed displaying time stamps on the horizontal axis
Edit Box component: added checking bounds when entering a tag value
Notepad component: fixed saving data if the component is configured to save data to a selected file
Notepad component: avoided keeping the file locked if the component is configured to save data to a selected file
vector components: fixed painting lines using different styles
Options dialog: added the option that affects the distance of a historical trend axis from the edges
select object dialog: handled the situation when the sorting of objects was changed during the selection
fixed the error that might (under certain conditions) block using the Web client when a modal window was displayed in combination with a stay-on-top window
fixed saving the main window position when the program terminates (previously, the position was not saved if the main window's title bar was hidden)
fixed the error that consisted in not allowing the user to enter a value for a tag of type DateTime using the keyboard
fixed handling the "Disconnect" command when the connection to the server is not established
added repainting the virtual keyboard after pressing the Shift key
the virtual keyboard is now automatically displayed only with windows in which user input (e.g., entering a value) is expected
added Turkish as a program language
the Web client now considers the "Automatically check for new version of Reliance 4" option

Reliance Smart Client

updated libraries: jQuery 1.9.1, jQueryMobile 1.3.1, Flot 0.8.1
current alarms/events: now updated automatically (without needing to refresh the page)
current alarms/events: added the possibility to quickly filter the content by device
added a historical alarm/event viewer
alarm/event viewers: added indicating alarm/event status by the background color
trend viewer: fixed the time zone of time stamps on the horizontal axis
trend viewer: fixed displaying the title (previously, alias or name was displayed)
added support for associating a program language with a project language
added support for pictures in the SVG format
added showing a title bar in visualization windows (if enabled)
Display component: fixed the background color if the component was configured to indicate exceeding/falling below limits but the main tag had no limits defined
button-type components: graphical button – added the possibility to change the way of displaying the state pictures if the picture and component sizes differ
Button component: fixed considering the "Write const. value" property (previously, the "Enter Value for Tag" dialog was shown)
added support for the Container component
RELI-8326 – fixed displaying text that begins with a single space
fixed zooming using gestures under certain conditions
fixed the error that caused some components to "disappear" after switching the project language
optimized the size of HTTP requests sent to the server
optimized the number of HTTP requests sent to the server

Reliance OPC Server

fixed the wrong behavior that occurred when using data structures

Communication drivers

added checking the maximum packet count for writing (after reaching the maximum count, further write operations are not performed; information about this situation is included in the packet list in the Project Structure Manager and in the log file)
fixed the communication error on a secondary (backup) channel (the error introduced in version 4.5.2)
the number of stop bits is no longer set automatically based on parity – the setting configured through the Project Structure Manager is now considered
fixed the false message about the version of the communication driver and the runtime software being different
added driver version information to log files
fixed server mode communication
fixed sporadic "freezing" the program that might occur when disconnecting the runtime software from the driver while terminating the project (as a result, the runtime software also appeared "frozen" and did not end)
M-Bus: fixed updating the tags whose values are not contained in the first response to the REQ_UD2 request
M-Bus: Itron Cyble model – altered decoding data if it contains wrong values
M-Bus: Enbra Supercal 531 model – added a time delay (equal to communication timeout) between sending the "wake up" and "connect" packets
M-Bus: Enbra531 model – added reinitializing the connection to the device after receiving the wrong data
M-Bus: when the driver receives a packet, it now identifies the source device also by IP address if the communication channel type is Network (Ethernet)/Serial (RS-232, RS-485)
M-Bus: added periodically initializing the connection using the SND_NKE command if there are any data requests; the initialization is performed at intervals determined by the "Comm. test interval" property
Sauter: fixed the communication error that might have occurred when multiple writes were performed during a short time
BACnet: added reading data using the COV function (COV = Change of Value)
BACnet: added the possibility to define bit-array tags (StatusFlags, AckedTransitions, ...) as Bool or Byte
Modbus: when writing data through the "Force Multiple Coils" function, the driver now writes up to 8 bits at a time if their addresses are contiguous
Modbus: Wago device – fixed reading/writing tags located in the upper byte of a Modbus address
Modbus: added support for the "Elster Instromet" and "Pemit Datalogger" models
Modbus: added support for the "Daniel 2350" model; in this model, a tag is always counted as a single element, i.e., also Float and LongWord
AMiT: improved generating the initialization string – handled the situation when the tag name contains an illegal character
Johnson Controls: fixed error code description
Johnson Controls: DX9100 model – fixed reading/writing time programs
Johnson Controls: fixed reading data from the addresses 13–18
Johnson Controls: when the driver receives a packet, it now identifies the source device also by IP address if the communication channel type is Network (Ethernet)/Serial (RS-232, RS-485)
Elgas: fixed communication through a channel of type Network (Ethernet)/Serial (RS-232, RS-485)
Elgas: fixed reading historical analog data (previously, two incorrect analog values were added to the data after establishing a connection to the device)
Elgas: Elags 2 device – altered the reception of historical data so that the digital archive would also contain tags of type Setpoint
IEC104: RWE model – to update a single tag, the driver now sends the C_IC_NA_1 command (general query) instead of the C_RD_NA_1 command
IEC104: fixed decoding data sent in a continuous block having a common address of ASQ=1
SMS: stopped using the file SMS_Drv.ini (the list of AT commands used for the driver initialization can now be configured through the Communication Driver Manager)
SMS: fixed receiving and sending text messages when a PIN was required

Example projects

added the project CustomReport_dBASE (demonstrates displaying data from a dBASE table)
ThinClientRequestHandlingFromScript: added a missing window file
altered the project BoilerRoom_RedundantServers: used data server redundancy
removed the project RedundantDataTables (it showed how to implement redundancy through scripts – it is no longer needed)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

trend viewer: fixed scrolling the chart using the right mouse button
report viewer: fixed sporadic "freezing" the program that might occur when invoking the print preview (the preview window, which is modal, was displayed in the background)

Communication drivers

fixed the default values of communication options so that communication would work even if the communication driver (the object that defines communication options) is not connected to the computer in the Project Structure Manager
handled the error that can occur while processing timed-out packets during a warm restart of the communication channel
Modbus: fixed generating a communication packet (the error introduced in version 4.2.3)
Modbus: fixed converting a Wago address to the corresponding Modbus address
BACnet: fixed updating the time stamp for tags of type String
IEC104: fixed processing received data if the project contained two tags with the same type identifier for reading and the first was not readable (and the same for writing)
Teco: fixed reading data from the databox through communication zones
Inmat: fixed communication

All modules

fixed reading license registration information
file open dialog: added the possibility to invoke On-Screen Keyboard
file save dialog: added the possibility to invoke On-Screen Keyboard
fixed logging memory status on 64-bit Windows

Real-Time Chart component

RELI-3506 – added the possibility to specify a color for each series point
fixed displaying point names on the X axis
changed the icon in the Component Palette (the original icon was too similar to that of the Real-Time Trend component)

Data Grid component

RELI-8444 – fixed automatically repainting the component when the associated array-type tags' data has changed

All IP Camera components

added a warning (internal system message) if the respective device drivers have not been installed

Axis IP Camera component

added support for H.264
fixed the error that consisted in recording only video (without sound)

Pelco IP Camera component

a new component for Pelco IP cameras

BACnet – Time Program component

fixed the maximum for the off time to be 24:00
fixed the display of the toolbar on Windows XP, changed icons
fixed the error that consisted in rewriting the first state item of the time program
added the possibility to define an event for multiple days at a time

Johnson Controls – Time Program component

fixed the mask for Sunday and a holiday (previously, they were exchanged)
fixed generating the end of an event (the "Occupied" state instead of "Invalid")
fixed the display of the toolbar on Windows XP, changed icons

Reliance Design development environment

Data Structure Manager: added importing data structures for BACnet devices from the EDE format
Data Structure Manager: changed the default value of the "Field address defined by" property of data structures for most device types (previously "Individually", now "Offset")
Data Structure Manager: added displaying data structures and their fields in a different color after importing them (all imported objects have a different text color regardless of whether their properties have changed)
Device Manager: added displaying tags in a different color after importing them (all imported tags have a different text color regardless of whether their properties have changed)
Device Manager: fixed importing tags from the ST format (IEC EN 61131-3) – fixed setting a change flag for tags representing array elements if their address has changed
Device Manager: added/fixed support for structured tags from BACnet devices (added calculating the value of the "Instance number" property, added assuming the value of the "Object type", "Object number", "Property identifier", and "Property number" properties from the respective data structure field)
Device Manager: fixed the number of displayed items in the drop-down list of the "Tag data type" property of tags from Modbus and Wago devices (previously, only one item was visible under certain circumstances)
Device Manager: fixed the order of controls in property panes of tags from devices of type Modbus, Wago, BACnet, IEC104, Johnson Controls, wsr3000, and AMiT
Device Manager: added the "Send general query after connect" property for an IEC104 device (general query = request for the data of all tags)
Device Manager: alpha-sorted the items in the "Property identifier" drop-down list available for tags of a BACnet device
Device Manager: added a new device type – TMC
Device Manager: increased the maximum value (from 7 to 31) of the bit number for tags of a Promos device
Device Manager: fixed displaying the address of an Elgas device (removed the decimal separator)
Device Manager: changed the default property values of a BACnet device
Device Manager: added the possibility to modify the bit number for tags of AMiT, JohnsonControls, Teco, and Wago devices through a spinner control
Device Manager: added importing structured tags into a BACnet device from the EDE format
Device Manager: added the "Data type conversion" property for OPC devices
RELI-8135 – Device Manager: added dynamic bounds for setting the value of a tag (the "Prohibit violating bounds" option and subordinate settings on the "Security" page)
Data Table Manager: added the possibility to control the interval of reading time-stamped data from a device by a tag
RELI-3438 – Real-Time Trend Manager: added the possibility to configure a vertical axis for a trend and a separate vertical axis for each series
Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – fixed e-mailing a report from the preview
Custom Report Manager: added a new custom report type – Web Archive (*.MHT)
Custom Report Manager: added a new component named RDT Table (with the class name TfrxRDTTable) designed for accessing files with an .rdt extension
Custom Report Manager: added a new component named Alarm/Event Table Column Text Object (with the class name TfrxRAEMemoView) designed to display information from a specified column of the alarm/event database table
Project Structure Manager: added new authentication and security options to outgoing E-mail configuration (computer | "E-mail")
Project Structure Manager: removed the "Device type" option from the SMS configuration – it is no longer needed (computer | "E-mail")
Project Structure Manager: fixed the undesirable change of the "Channel type" property when bulk changing another property of multiple communication channels
Project Structure Manager: added the time synchronization options for a BACnet device's communication channel (communication channel | "Time")
Project Structure Manager: added the "Serial communication mode" option for a communication channel of type "Network (Ethernet) (if this option is active and there are multiple devices with the same IP address, the communication driver will wait for the response from the device before sending a request to the next device – similarly to serial communication)"
String Manager: fixed the "List index out of bounds (-1)" error
Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: disabled the controls or whole steps of the wizard that don't make sense for selected thin client types
Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: added the file \ThinClients\Private\ThinClient_ConfigList.txt that contains the links for launching thin clients in particular configurations (it is intended for situations when the configurations are not published)
Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: added the revision number to JAR filenames (it solves the problem of JAR file caching by the Java Plugin)
Project Diagnostics, finding object usages: fixed finding unused structured tags when using more complex window templates
Project Options: extended the Web server options so that the following connection setup would be possible: only HTTP, only HTTPS, both HTTP and HTTPS
design window: hidden scroll bars in window templates (avoided shifting the content of a window template using the scroll bars, which resulted in painting the identically shifted content in Container components linked to that template)

Runtime software

fixed the sporadic error that caused increasing the file size of data tables connected through a server connection (on the client side)
added generating alarms/events based on the changes in tag values (e.g., for IEC 104 devices)
when generating alarms/events, the start time is copied from the time stamp of the respective tag (previously, computer time was used)
added exporting the project for communication drivers during starting the project
sped up starting the project
components' standard popup menu: the "Show Trend" command – improved the algorithm for selecting the data table used as a data source for the trend of a tag (added comparing the data tables by logging interval, and if needed, also by name)
components' standard popup menu: added the "Relinquish Command For Tag" for tags from BACnet devices connected through a server connection (on the client side)
added logging relinquishing the command for tags from BACnet devices to the alarm/event database
report viewer: fixed hiding the columns (that were previously configured to be hidden) based on the settings stored in user profiles
report viewer: added loading settings from a user profile after user log-on (if the viewer has already been open)
RELI-8141 – RSys.PrintDbReport method: added the possibility to restrict the range of printed data to the current file of the data table as in Reliance 3 (this behavior can be activated by adding a line in the form Param6=1 to the section Section200)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

Recipe Editor: fixed the "Access Violation" error that sometimes occurred while browsing through the list of recipe types
improved the project startup progress information
RELI-8572 – substantially accelerated loading windows that contain window templates (previously, templates were loaded from files more times than necessary)
fixed loading window templates containing a circular reference (previously, the program ended up in an endless loop and needed terminating)
removed the notification about the availability of a new version of Reliance 4
historical alarms/events: hidden the value in the "Tag value" column for the message about setting the value of a tag (previously, a value of 0 was always displayed)
RELI-8135 – added checking dynamic bounds for setting the value of a tag

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

added the OpenSSL 1.0.1c libraries
added support for a secure connection with the Web service
added further information to the data object returned by the RScr.GetCurrentScriptDataEx method in a script triggered by a thin client request (session ID)
added further information to the data object returned by the RScr.GetCurrentScriptDataEx method in a script triggered by a request from Smart Client (information about the Web browser)
fixed the memory leak that occurred when checking for program updates as a result of a request from Smart Client
server Web pages: Reliance Web Client – added a noticeable button for launching the default (first) configuration to the page displaying the list of configurations
server Web pages: administration – added information on the number of connected custom applications and instances of Reliance OPC Server
server Web pages: statistics – fixed the memory usage chart
server Web pages: updated the documentation for the custom application interface of the Web service
server Web pages: fixed displaying the number of connected thin clients
server Web pages: fixed the caching of pages
custom application interface of the Web service: added the GetInfo function, which returns information on the server and the current project
custom application interface of the Web service: added the GetObjectList function, which returns the list of object identifiers for a specified object type
RELI-8440 – custom application interface of the Web service: added the GetObjectInfo function, which returns information on a specified object
custom application interface of the Web service: added the GetProjectString function, which returns a project-defined string
custom application interface of the Web service: fixed the Connect and ConnectEx methods that sporadically returned a false error code (invalid password)

Reliance Web Client

updated SW components (JGoodies Looks 2.5.2, Toedter JCalendar 1.4, JNA 3.3.0)
RELI-8135 – added checking dynamic bounds for setting the value of a tag
added the "Relinquish Command For Tag" for tags from BACnet devices
fixed aligning controls in the "Chart Properties" dialog
added support for a secure connection with Reliance's data server
trend viewer: series and limit colors are now the same as in the runtime software's trend viewer
Data Tree component: fixed saving the selected node index to the control tag
Data Grid component: fixed automatically repainting the component when the data of the foreground or background color control tag has changed
Edit Box component: fixed the alignment of the label
Time Program, Teco – Time Program components: fixed checking the write data security
RELI-3506 – Real-Time Chart component: added the possibility to specify a color for each series point
RELI-8388 – trend viewer: fixed maximizing the viewer window
fixed running the script on closing the window
fixed the error that consisted in executing all actions that had no shortcut as a result of pressing a multimedia key (e.g., Mute)

Reliance Smart Client

now based on jQuery 1.8.2, jQueryMobile 1.2
added a trend viewer (supports: historical trends, tag trend, auto-scroll, swipe navigation, ruler)
added support for the action of type "Update tag value"
added support for the action of type "Show tag trend"
added the "Relinquish Command For Tag" for tags from BACnet devices
added a standard popup menu for the Display component (contains commands: "Show Trend", "Update Value of Tag", "Enter Value for Tag", "Relinquish Command for Tag", "Information on Tag")
added support for checking user inactivity
added running scripts on loading/activating/deactivating/closing/freeing a window
optimized the size of the pages and transferred data
fixed writing the levels in Teco time programs
avoided repeatedly refreshing the page as a result of errors in the transferred data (now, an error message is displayed)
fixed the error that consisted in showing a tray window even if it was listed as disabled
fixed displaying the active project language in the main menu
fixed setting the program and project language based on the logged-on user
fixed displaying components in visualization windows when the project contained a window of type Left tray
fixed zooming using gestures on the iOS operating system (iPhone, iPad)
fixed displaying the background of visualization windows after changing the display orientation (portrait/landscape)
fixed the error that consisted in not allowing the user to enter a value with a decimal part for a tag in some Web browsers
Progress Bar component: fixed painting the component if the displayed value was out of bounds
RELI-8326 – fixed displaying text that contained multiple spaces in a row

Reliance Mobile Client

added checking dynamic bounds for setting the value of a tag

Reliance OPC Server

fixed displaying the "Reliance 4 Servers" window content when a BACnet device was used in the project

Communication drivers

fixed the error in establishing a connection through a modem
fixed the error in reestablishing a connection through TCP/IP after a communication error
adjusted the communication so that the reading of historical data would proceed continuously without being interrupted by the reading of real-time data
fixed decoding the received data when the NVT protocol is used
fixed the error that sometimes occurred during project termination and that resulted in not terminating the communication driver process
fixed logging communications over Ethernet so that the log file would contain data separated based on communication packets
reduced the size of the communication driver DLLs
Sauter: fixed sending and receiving a user-defined message
BACnet: fixed decoding the priority-array property represented as Bool
BACnet: added support for device time synchronization
IEC104: added optionally sending a general query after establishing a connection with a device (general query = request for the data of all tags)
IEC104: fixed the quality of tags after a communication error
AMiT: fixed the error in the initialization of the ATouch ActiveX control if there are multiple devices with the same IP address
QMD: added support for devices with the TMC protocol
Modbus: fixed the error in communication with Wago devices when using communication zones
Elgas: added support for devices with firmware version later than 2.0
Generic: fixed the error in the received data in the special tag of type Input string

Utilities

added the R_HistDataToDailyArcConverter.exe utility intended to convert a Reliance project's historical data to daily archive files (allows converting monthly archive files to daily ones)
added the R_Int64TimeConverter.exe utility intended for conversions between the Int64Time and DateTime data types

Example projects

added the project IPCamera_Pelco (allows displaying video from a Pelco IP camera and controlling the camera)
added the project CustomReport_AlarmsEvents_File (demonstrates displaying alarms/events from a file-based database)
added the project CustomReport_AlarmsEvents_SQL (demonstrates displaying alarms/events from a SQL-based database)

All modules

“Customize Trend” dialog: suppressed the error message "No context-sensitive help installed" that was previously displayed after pressing the F1 key

Data Tree component

fixed the error that consisted in not showing the number of node cells in the "Edit Node" and "Add Node" dialogs
fixed the error that consisted in not allowing the user to define the link to a tag after adding a new node if the component had not been saved

Data Grid component

added the possibility to display multi-line (word-wrapped) text
added the possibility to edit the value of a tag using the keyboard

Real-Time Chart component

optimized updating the chart

BACnet – Time Program component

a new component for editing time programs in BACnet devices

Reliance Design development environment

Device Manager: added the "InteliDrive EM" model for a Modbus device with the possibility to specify an access code
Device Manager: renamed the "Alarm/event delay" property of a tag to "Alarm/event start delay" (the "Advanced" page)
Device Manager: added the "Alarm/event end delay" property for a tag (the "Advanced" page)
Device Manager: fixed showing property controls of device folders, communication zone folders, and alarm/event folders (previously, property controls of a tag folder were also sometimes shown, which resulted in an "Invalid class typecast" error)
RELI-8232 – Script Manager: fixed checking scripts
Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – fixed the error that consisted in not allowing the user to check/uncheck the "Select custom template" option in the "Select Custom Report Type" dialog
Project Diagnostics: added checking if communication drivers are connected to computers in the Project Structure Manager
Project Diagnostics: Container component – fixed checking the link to a structured tag if the embedded object was a window template (previously, a false error message was displayed)
Project Options, Environment Options: added remembering the last selected item
RELI-8144 – design window: fixed the error that caused shifting components by the grid size not to function if the grid was not displayed in any of the open windows
Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: fixed exporting pictures stored in the WMF and EMF formats
Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: added THE possibility to run Smart Client
added support for context-sensitive help in the English version

Runtime software

RSys.ActivateWindow method: revised the implementation to be similar to that of the RSys.CloseWindow method so that the requested operations would be performed in the right order (previously, the RSys.ActivateWindow method was handled with higher priority)
RSys.SaveCustomReport method: a custom report can now be saved (exported) also in the XLSX and XML formats
added further information to the data object returned by the RScr.GetCurrentScriptDataEx method in a script triggered by an alarm/event (alarm/event text not preceded by start date and time)
report viewer: fixed the error that sporadically occurred when loading further records while using a filter and resulted in showing an empty message dialog
custom report viewer: fixed e-mailing a report via ESMTP
“Enter Tag Value” dialog: added the possibility to resize the dialog
“Enter Tag Value” dialog: added support for editing multi-line text

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

added a warning about logging handled exceptions being active
components' standard popup menu: added the "Relinquish Command For Tag" for tags from BACnet devices (currently, it is only functional for directly connected devices, i.e., if the runtime software communicates with the device through the BACnet driver)
fixed running a script on acknowledging an alarm created by the RAlm.CreateAlarm method (previously, an error occurred – the script did not execute and the acknowledgment was not completed)
Recipe Editor: disabled Drag & Drop operations with recipe types and recipe items (dragging and dropping with the mouse has no function and caused "Access Violation" errors to occur)

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

renamed some parameters in the URL (backward compatibility is maintained)
optimized the amount of transferred data (compressed HTML, CSS, and JS files)
changed the SSL encryption method from SSL3 to TLS1
RELI-8095 – fixed server Web page authentication

Reliance Server, Reliance Driver Server

fixed running the program as a Windows service on the Local System account (previously, the service failed to start)

Reliance Web Client

fixed entering limits for a tag
fixed the trend viewer invoked from a modal dialog window (previously, the user could not work with it)

Reliance Smart Client

updated the jQuery framework to version 1.7.2
updated the jQueryMobile framework to version 1.2
support for the Web browser in BlackBerry devices: removed the unnecessary cookies from the Web pages
support for the Web browser in BlackBerry devices: changed the type of AJAX requests from POST to GET
support for the Web browser in BlackBerry devices: altered the method of creating client sessions so that a single client could be connected to the server from multiple IP addresses at the same time
fixed the error caused components to stop repainting (it might have occurred when the server was processing many requests)
fixed updating the image from IP cameras
fixed opening certain visualization windows in Internet Explorer on Windows Phone 7.5
RELI-8162 – avoided connecting to the server at www.reliance.cz if checking for updates is disabled
RELI-8161 – fixed components' dynamic visibility (previously, it did not work correctly for components that were initially hidden)
fixed checking the access code (previously, it did not work correctly under certain conditions)
fixed the error that caused the shortening of time intervals between requests for data that occurred while switching between visualization windows
added support for actions of type "Close dialog window" (invokes the command for displaying the previous page)
added support for running scripts (on the server)
button-like components: fixed painting word-wrapped text
Check Box component: added support for setting the tag value
Radio Buttons component: added support for setting the tag value
Combo Box component: added support for setting the tag value
Popup Menu component: added support for the component
Animation component: added support for playing a set of pictures

Communication drivers

BACnet: added support for reading and writing time programs
BACnet: fixed writing the properties different from present-value and the Bool data type
BACnet: added decoding the priority-array property with the possibility to represent it as Bool, Word, or Array of String
BACnet: added support for relinquishing the command for a tag, either from components' standard popup menu (the "Relinquish Command For Tag" command) or by writing a value of "0" into the priority-array property
Modbus: added support for the "InteliDrive EM" model (an access code is sent to the device before establishing a connection with it)
Teco: added the possibility to read registers with addresses higher than 65535

Help and documentation

added the English version of the context-sensitive help for the development environment
updated the English version of the manual for the development environment

Example projects

added the project DataGrid_WordWrap (demonstrates displaying word-wrapped text in the Data Grid component)
DataTree_ControlArea: fixed the error that resulted in failing to open the project

All modules

by using a new Delphi compiler and new GUI libraries (VCL), improved performance, security, and the integration of individual modules into the Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems
added a number of security improvements
notification of a new version is now displayed at most once a day
fixed verifying the software key via License Service
object selection dialogs: increased the speed of selecting multiple items
numeric value edit box: fixed increasing and decreasing the value using the keyboard (the Up and Down arrow keys)

All components

component editor: it is no longer possible to enter a negative value for component width and height

Vector components

RELI-4868 – fixed painting the gradient-style fill of a component embedded into a window (as part of a window template) through a Container component

Data Tree, Real-Time Trend, Real-Time Chart, Equithermal Curve components

fixed enabling/disabling certain controls on the "Security" page

Container component

RELI-4697 – added the possibility to embed a historical trend (the "Embedded object" property = "Trend")
added the possibility to embed historical alarms/events (the "Embedded object" property = "Historical alarms/events")

Data Tree component

RELI-4877 – added support for images in the PNG format
component editor: fixed presetting the "Sort by column" property to "-1" (previously, the value was preset to "0")
double-clicking left mouse button now expands/collapses the selected node
avoided running an action (linked to a node) or prompting the user to enter the value for a tag (linked to a node) after clicking on the component outside the node
added notifying the user of insufficient access rights when working with secured nodes and cells

Data Grid component

added the possibility to control the selected column by a tag

Teco – IRC component

runtime component editor: avoided displaying text in the background pane when editing daily programs

Sauter – Time Program component

fixed displaying localized property names and descriptions of time program commands in the Component Manager

Teco – Time Program component

component editor: fixed invoking the "Select String" dialog from the edit box for entering the time program name
runtime component editor: fixed increasing the value of the controlled process variable by using the mouse when editing the time program

Johnson Controls – ON/OFF Time Program component

a new component for editing ON/OFF (two-state) time programs

Level Fill Picture component

added showing the "Enter Value for Tag" dialog after double-clicking the component

Line component

RELI-7170 – fixed painting the arrow

Reliance Design development environment

managers: fixed automatically switching to edit-name mode after adding a new folder
managers: fixed updating the selected object's name in the status bar after renaming the object and saving the changes
managers: avoided adding the same localizable string multiple times when importing objects from the CSV format (it only happened under very special circumstances)
Device Manager: added the possibility to specify the tag data update settings on the level of a tag folder (the "Update tags based on folder" option and subordinate settings)
Device Manager: added the possibility to control the OPC group update interval by a tag (the "Update interval" | "Dynamic" option)
Script Manager: added the RSys.Int64TimeToDateTime method, which converts a specified date and time value from the Int64Time format to the DateTime format
Script Manager: added the RSys.DateTimeToInt64Time method, which converts a specified date and time value from the DateTime format to the Int64Time format
Script Manager: added the RSys.UTCDateTimeToLocalDateTime method, which converts a specified date and time value from UTC to the local time
Script Manager: added the RSys.LocalDateTimeToUTCDateTime method, which converts a specified date and time value from the local time to UTC
Script Manager: added displaying the selected script's ID and name in the status bar
String Manager: the "Translate by Google" command now supports the Google API v2
String Manager: the "Translate by Google" command now allows for translating multiple strings at a time
String Manager: setting the "Untranslatable" flag no longer reverts the string to the default language
Action Manager: added the "Show information on tag" action type
Action Manager: added the "Show tag trend" action type
Action Manager: added the "Update tag value" action type
Action Manager: added the "Show tag limits" action type
Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – avoided creating the file named Report1_00000000.rrt, which sporadically happened after creating the first report in the project
Custom Report Manager: custom reports of type FastReport – added the possibility to import multiple localizable strings at a time in the designer
RELI-1471 – Picture Manager: fixed the error that occurred when saving certain pictures in the JPEG format (the picture was not saved as a result of the error)
Project Structure Manager: added the possibility to specify a script to be run after receiving the data for a data table from the server (the "Run script on" | "Receive data from server" property of a connected data table)
RELI-7193 – Window Manager: improved the behavior when adding a new folder or window
Window Manager: improved browsing using the keyboard
RELI-7148 – Window Manager: fixed moving multiple windows into a folder using the mouse (previously, not all the windows were moved)
RELI-7150 – Window Manager: the "Replace Object Properties" command is now enabled only for open windows
RELI-1452, RELI-4554 – Component Manager: fixed the sporadic error that might occur when editing the value of a property and caused the newly entered value to be lost
Create New Window Template Wizard: added the "Add components and link them to data structure fields" option
Export Project for Remote Users Wizard: it is no longer possible to add a computer to the list of configurations multiple times
RELI-7562 – Replace Object Properties Wizard: added repainting Button components after replacing the values of certain properties
RELI-7149 – Replace Object Properties Wizard: added setting input focus to the "Text to find" edit box after showing the wizard
Project Diagnostics: added checking password strength
Project Diagnostics: added checking the settings related to creating data table archive files
Project Diagnostics: Project Options – fixed invoking the dialog from the Project Diagnostics Results window if an error is reported that is related to creating archive files for the alarm/event database (e.g., invalid link to a tag; previously, an "Access Violation" error occurred)
Project Diagnostics: Project Options – fixed selecting the option controls in the "Web" section
Project Diagnostics: Button component – fixed selecting the "Query for state 0" and "Query for state 1" controls in the component editor
Project Diagnostics: Button component – added checking the "Confirm-violation limits" object
Project Diagnostics: Button component – fixed checking security (previously, if there was an error, it was reported twice)
Project Diagnostics: Animation component – fixed selecting the state (in which an error was found) in the list of states in the component editor
Project Diagnostics: Combo Box component – fixed selecting the item (in which an error was found) in the list of items in the component editor
Project Diagnostics: Check Box component – fixed selecting the "Query 0" and "Query 1" controls in the component editor
Project Diagnostics: Popup Menu component – fixed checking localizable strings in items of type Separator
"Welcome" window: added a link to YouTube
RELI-7825 – Information Window: fixed the display of the button for switching the project language
added the "Project" > "Register as Service" command
Component Palette: it is no longer possible to remove a component from the palette if a project is open
RELI-7203 – the number of pixels by which the selected component is shifted when pressing the Alt+arrow keys changed to five times the grid size
the number of pixels by which a component created by duplicating is shifted changed to the grid size
fixed the sporadic "Access Violation" error that might occur when duplicating a window
RELI-7990 – fixed the grouping of components after duplicating a window
RELI-6504 – fixed updating the Component Manager after ungrouping components (previously, the components remained selected but changing properties through the Component Manager only affected one of the components)
RELI-7745 – optimized the speed of generating the name for a new component (substantially sped up designing windows with a large number of components)
RELI-7911 – "Window Properties" dialog: fixed checking the properties before closing the dialog
"Window Template Properties" dialog: hidden the controls of properties that don't make sense for a template

Runtime software

added the implementation of the following methods: RSys.Int64TimeToDateTime, RSys.DateTimeToInt64Time, RSys.UTCDateTimeToLocalDateTime, and RSys.LocalDateTimeToUTCDateTime
custom reports of type FastReport: fixed exporting reports to the MS Excel format (previously, numerical values were exported in the wrong format if "Decimal symbol" and "Digit grouping symbol" in the Windows Control Panel were set to the same character)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

substantially accelerated loading windows that contain window templates
substantially reduced the number of GDI objects allocated when using window templates
Recipe Editor: added displaying engineering units for recipe items
Recipe Editor: altered the display of numerical values of recipe items (the number of decimal places configured for the respective tag is used)
log-on user dialog: added a delay after entering invalid credentials
RELI-7874 – removed the input focus from the component in an inactive visualization window after switching into the runtime software from another program (e.g., by using Alt+Tab)
trend viewer: fixed the sporadic "List index of out bounds" error that might occur after using the "Show Trend from Specified Date and Time" command
trend viewer, historical alarms/events: added automatically saving and loading settings when the user logs on/off
report viewer: fixed displaying summary calculation results in the preview if some of the columns are hidden
historical alarms/events: improved loading records from the file-based database (avoided loading records by pages of 1000 records – all available records are displayed)
multi-monitor system: windows are now shown on the monitor from which they were invoked (based on the mouse cursor position)

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

added a warning if the TCP port is already open (e.g., it is being used by another program)
improved security (added verifying the commands received from thin clients by the server)
server Web pages: added support for the SSL 3.0 security protocol
server Web pages: changed the method of user authentication (Basic Access Authentication replaced with authentication through a form)
server Web pages: statistics – optimized generating charts (occurs only when the page is requested to be displayed)
server Web pages: statistics – charts are generated by using the Flot JavaScript library
server Web pages: statistics – added the possibility to switch between a normal and stacked chart
server Web pages: statistics – added the following information: number of accesses filtered by the whitelist/blacklist, invalid requests (e.g., incorrectly encrypted data), invalid credentials, and requests that cause an HTTP error with codes 403 and 404
server Web pages: added the documentation for the custom application interface of the Web service
WSDL: added the description of the custom application interface of the Web service
custom application interface of the Web service: added a function named Connect2 that expects a password hash
renamed the files Filter_BlackList.txt and Filter_WhiteList.txt to IPBlackList.txt and IPWhiteList.txt and moved them to the Config folder

Reliance Web Client

fixed running the Web client as an applet if multiple data servers were specified when exporting the project for remote users
added support for verifying commands by the server
added support for actions of type "Show information on tag", "Show tag trend", "Update tag value" and "Show tag limits"
RELI-7743 – fixed indicating the bad quality of tags by painting a yellow border (it should now behave the same as in the runtime software)
fixed the sporadic error that caused time program components to write outside the memory that is allocated for the time program
Radio Buttons component: fixed displaying the component in the mode in which each button corresponds to a digital tag
Data Tree component: added support for using the keyboard to execute actions and prompt the user to enter the value for a tag
Data Tree component: fixed running the action linked to a tree node
Data Tree component: fixed displaying cells of type Display
Data Grid component: fixed unselecting the grid row based on the control tag value (when the value was set to -1)
RELI-4697 – Container component: added the possibility to embed a historical trend
Container component: added the possibility to embed historical alarms/events

Reliance Mobile Client

improved security (added verifying the commands received from thin clients by the server)

Reliance Smart Client

The first public version of the new client of the Reliance SCADA/HMI system intended for making visualization applications available to the user via Web pages. It is designed for use with smartphones and tablets that are very popular among users these days and their popularity is rapidly increasing. In addition to smartphones and tablets, the client can also be used for any device equipped with a Web browser (e.g., a standard PC with a touchscreen).

Communication drivers

changed the way of loading projects (used the JSON data format)
BACnet: a new communication driver that implements the basic objects and services of the BACnet communication protocol according to the ASHRAE standard
Johnson Controls: added support for reading and writing time programs from/to the FX series devices

Utilities

Custom Report Designer: fixed registering the "ConnectionString" property of the TfrxADOQuery component

Example projects

added the following projects: AccessDLLFromScript, DataTableWithDateTimeColumn, ComponentInfoInScripts, ClientServerAppWithBackupCommToPLC
added the descriptions of the following projects: CustomRecipeEditor, DataGrid_SelectItemDialog, MotorDetails_WindowTemplate, RedundantDataTables, SendAlarmsUsingGroups_Simple, Stopwatch, AccessDLLFromScript

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All modules

added a number of security improvements
License Activation Wizard: fixed the offline update of the license stored in a software key by an activation key

IRC component

runtime component editor: allowed editing numerical values through spinners

Data Tree component

component editor: fixed the error that caused displaying the warning "Invalid used cell type name" even if the cell type name was correct
"Duplicate Node" dialog: fixed the error that occurred at runtime when displaying the list of devices

Radio Buttons component

component editor: restricted the type of value specified for a radio button to integer numbers (previously, it was possible to enter a real number)

Text, Active Text, Check Box components

RELI-7196 - component editor: improved entering text (if word wrapping is not active, the editor can be closed by pressing Enter)

Vector components

RELI-7204 - fixed painting a thick border

Vivotek IP Camera component

fixed the error that caused the controlled connection not to work with some camera models
fixed the error that caused the recording not to work with some camera models
fixed connection interruptions with some camera models
added possibility to select the Multicast protocol
added support for camera models from series 7000 (Dual Stream), Dual Stream, and Multiple Stream

Reliance Design development environment

Device Manager: fixed importing tags of type "SmallInt (16 b)" from PUB format into a Teco device
Report Manager: changed the default background color of the report title and column header
Script Manager: fixed the error that consisted in discarding the values of certain properties when changing the script type
User Manager, Project Structure Manager: changed the default setting of security restrictions for a computer and a user (disabled the Trend Manager, Report Manager, and Project Manager)
Project Diagnostics: data tables - added checking the tag that receives the timestamp of the last logged record
Project Diagnostics: connected data tables - fixed checking some properties
Project Diagnostics: actions - fixed checking the "Title" property (only available with some action types)
RELI-7225 - Find Object Usages Wizard - disabled the "Back" button in the first step of the wizard
RELI-7226 - Find Object Usages Wizard - fixed finding usages of a tag (previously, the results also included components in window templates that were linked to the data structure field with the same ID as the tag)
Component Palette: fixed updating the component hints after switching the program language
added the "Enable closing" property for visualization windows of type "Dialog"
added the "Visibility" property for visualization windows (possibility to control the window visibility by a tag)
fixed duplicating a visualization window (previously, some window properties were not copied if the window contained no components)
RELI-7218 - design window: fixed the error that caused the "Undo" command not to function properly if the window content was shifted using the scroll bars
RELI-7219 - fixed painting when moving components whose edges overlap each other
avoided flushing file buffers (writing all buffered information to hard disk) when generating IDs for new objects (devices, tags, etc.)

Runtime software

OPC client: added logging possible errors when writing OPC tags
improved the message about a script error (added the name of the script containing the source code that generated the error)
avoided flushing file buffers (writing all buffered information to hard disk) when writing information to log files
avoided flushing file buffers when logging Postmort records
added removing invalid alarm/event group IDs from the properties of alarms/events and users when loading a project (e.g. IDs of groups that were later deleted)
alarm/event viewers: fixed updating the localizable strings after switching the project language
report viewer: fixed the error that caused the summary calculation results not to be displayed in the preview under certain conditions
custom reports of type FastReport: fixed exporting the reports into the MS Excel format (previously, numerical values were exported as text under certain conditions)
custom reports of type FastReport: fixed generating the report filename
RSys.ExecApp method: added setting the working directory of the application being launched to the directory in which the application is located
added the SenderName property to the data object returned by the RScr.GetCurrentScriptDataEx method in a script (SenderName is the complete name of the object that triggered the script)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

User Manager: the properties of a user with the servicing right can only be changed by a user with the servicing right
changed the text of the message displayed after unsuccessful user log-on
added fetching data from communication drivers and data servers after finishing replaying the Postmort records
added further information to the data object returned by the RScr.GetCurrentScriptDataEx method in a script triggered by a component (the name of the component's main tag, the name of the tag referenced by the container)

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

fixed a serious security error that allowed reading files beyond the root directory from a remote computer
interface for third-party applications: the return values of functions now provide more specific information (added new return codes)

Web Client

added support for the "Enable closing" property of visualization windows of type "Dialog"
added support for the "Visibility" property of visualization windows
added passing further information to a script triggered by a component (component name, window name, window ID, the name of the component's main tag, the name of the tag referenced by the container)
trend viewer: fixed loading the vertical axis range (scale)
trend viewer: the time axis range is now stored for individual trends

Communication drivers

avoided the early ending of a modem connection if the device does not respond to the communication packet for establishing a connection
AMiT: fixed the error in updating (reading) data that might have occurred during a long-term run

Utilities

Custom Report Designer: disabled the command for adding localizable strings from a Reliance project
RDT File Editor: fixed finding and replacing text if the table only contains one row

All modules

color selection dialog: fixed manually entering color coordinates on the "Mixed Color" page
added logging CPU load
added logging the active thread ID

Picture component

added repainting the component during runtime when the file containing the picture that is currently displayed is deleted (if the picture is dynamic, i.e. picture filename is controlled by a tag)

Data Tree component

fixed painting the foreground and background of Display cells in colors based on limits
RELI-6466 - fixed executing actions by double-clicking
fixed the error that caused cells to lose links to tags when renaming the cells

Vector components

added support for painting the border using various line styles with any line width (previously, only solid line style could have the width > 1)

Line component

fixed painting a line having an even width

Bar component

component editor: fixed the English localization of text strings

Reliance Design development environment

Component Manager: fixed entering a link to another object for the Animation, Data Tree, Combo Box, and Picture components (previously, it was possible to enter the link only if it consisted only of characters from the basic ASCII set)
RELI-6830 - Component Manager: fixed bulk changing access rights
Device Manager: changed the default value of the "Time stamp base" property of an OPC device (previously "Local time", now "UTC" - according to the OPC DA 2.05a specification)
Device Manager: changed the default value of the "Update interval" property of tags in most device types (previously 5000 ms, now 500 ms)
Device Manager: changed the default value of the "Automatically generate OPC ItemID for nested tags" property of an OPC device (previously inactive, now active)
Data Structure Manager: disabled the "Field address" property of data structures designed for device types whose tags don't have a numerical address (e.g. virtual device, OPC, DDE)
Data Structure Manager: disabled the "Field order" control for a data structure if the field order is not considered
RELI-6919 - Script Manager: fixed the English localization of headers automatically generated in new scripts (previously, some text strings were in Czech)
RELI-4764 - Script Manager: added the RModem.GSMSendATCommand method which passes a specified command to the GSM modem
Script Manager: added the RUser.LogOnUserWithNameAndPassword method which logs on a user with a specified name and password
Script Manager: added the RUser.LogOnUserWithCode method which logs on a user with a specified code (matching the "Code" property of the user)
Data Table Manager: changed units in which the "Logging interval" property is specified (previously seconds, now milliseconds)
Picture Manager: fixed formatting picture thumbnail titles
Picture Manager: fixed pre-setting the "Select Picture" dialog (invoked by the "Add Pictures" command) to open in the Picture Library (only applies to Windows XP)
String Manager: fixed finding text (previously, text was sometimes looked up in a different column)
Project Structure Manager: added the "Database type" property for a computer (the "Alarms/events" page; replaces the same-named option from the "Project Options" dialog)
Project Structure Manager: added the "Table name" property for a computer (the "Alarms/events" page)
Project Diagnostics, finding object usages: custom reports - fixed finding localizable strings when the connection to a database is incorrect
Project Diagnostics, finding object usages: fixed finding unused structured tags when using more complex window templates
Project Diagnostics, finding object usages: added the detection of the RTag.MoveTagElementValues method
Project Diagnostics: fixed checking data types for structured tags
Project Diagnostics: fixed checking window properties
Project Diagnostics: substantially speeded up displaying the results
design window: fixed painting the background of a window template when the displayed area is shifted using scroll bars
fixed the problem of running out of Windows graphical resources (GDI objects) when using a large number of pictures in PNG format (introduced a reference counting system)
RELI-5913 - added flushing file buffers (writing all buffered information to hard disk) when saving data to binary files and RDT format files

Runtime software

RELI-5913 - added flushing file buffers (writing all buffered information to hard disk) when saving data to binary files and RDT format files
changed looking up a recipe by name when loading and deleting recipes is controlled by a tag - the specified string must match the recipe name (previously, the program looked for a recipe whose name began with the specified string)
added further information to the data object returned by the RScr.GetCurrentScriptDataEx method in a script triggered by an alarm/event (e.g. device alias, compound tag alias, end date and time, acknowledgment date and time)
added implementation of the RUser.LogOnUserWithNameAndPassword, RUser.LogOnUserWithCode, and RModem.GSMSendATCommand methods
fixed logging a tag of type DateTime to a column of type Float in SQL Server 2000

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

added further information to the data object returned by the RScr.GetCurrentScriptDataEx method in a script triggered by a component (component name, window name, window ID)
trend viewer: fixed saving trend title font
trend viewer: changed the default color of the Y axis and its labels (previously white, now black)
report viewer: fixed displaying Unicode characters in the "Create Filter" dialog's column list
report viewer: updated text strings in the Russian localization
report viewer, historical alarms/events: improved exporting to CSV format - the delimiter pre-set to a semicolon, the file extension pre-set to .csv (previously .txt)
exchanged the colors in the title bars of visualization windows for better readability of the title (the darker color on the left)
added displaying and logging messages about errors that can occur during loading/saving recipes controlled by a tag
fixed the problem of running out of Windows graphical resources (GDI objects) when using a large number of pictures in PNG format (introduced a reference counting system)
fixed the Hungarian localization

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

fixed a memory error that might have occurred when a thin client disconnected from the server
added the file robots.txt for controlling the access of indexing robots (e.g. GoogleBot) to data server Web pages
server Web pages: fixed checking access rights for certain pages

Web Client

alarm/event viewers: fixed painting the alarm/event icon
Display component: fixed loading the units zone properties

Communication drivers

RELI-7013 - SMS: fixed sending text messages

Utilities

Custom Report Designer: fixed showing the help system

Installation program

fixed automatically pre-setting the program language based on the operating system language

All modules

added support for the "UTF8String", "WideString (UCS-2)", "Array of UTF8String" and "Array of WideString (UCS-2)" data types
unified the method of language localization => the same program files for different language versions (language settings are stored in configuration files)

Data Tree component

RELI-6465 - fixed the English localization of text strings

Edit Box component

fixed the component's behavior based on the "Prohibit violating bounds" and "Alert to violating bounds" properties

Real-Time Trend, Real-Time Chart, Equithermal Curve components

fixed setting the scale of axes after loading the window

Real-Time Trend component

chart property editor: allowed editing series properties on the "General" and "Marks" pages
fixed copying the scale of axes when duplicating the component

ActiveX Container component

fixed the wrong interpretation of properties of type "Bool"

Reliance Design development environment

Device Manager: added possibility to define internal tags of type "UTF8String", "WideString (UCS-2)", "Array of UTF8String" and "Array of WideString (UCS-2)" in all device types
RELI-6565 - Device Manager: allowed pasting copied tags from the clipboard (previously, the "Paste" command was disabled)
Device Manager: added automatically creating an OPC group when a new OPC device is defined
RELI-6541 - Device Manager: fixed importing tags from ST format if a comment contained the "%" character
RELI-6522, RELI-6523 - Device Manager, Data Structure Manager: added detailed information to the listing of tags (or data structures and data structure fields) imported from ST and PUB formats
RELI-6522, RELI-6523 - Device Manager, Data Structure Manager: fixed setting a change flag when importing tags (or data structures and data structure fields)
RELI-6524 - Data Structure Manager: fixed importing the order of data structure fields from ST format if the data structure already existed in the project
RELI-6520 - Data Structure Manager: added aligning on byte boundaries for the fields that follow bit arrays (Array of Bool) when importing data structures from ST format (Teco)
Data Structure Manager: fixed importing data structures whose name contains the reserved word STRUCT
RELI-6601 - Data Structure Manager: fixed importing multidimensional arrays so that they are imported as multiple one-dimensional arrays
RELI-6542 - Data Structure Manager: fixed displaying an imported data structure field out of a data structure (on a different tree branch)
Importing tags from an OPC server: added support for the "LargeInt (64 b)" and "Array of LargeInt (64 b)" data types
Importing tags from an OPC server: fixed importing engineering units (previously, engineering units were not imported if the OPC server had a hierarchical name space)
Recipe Manager: added possibility to specify a tag for editing the value of a recipe item (the "Use different tags for editing recipe" property of a recipe type and the "Editing tag" property of a recipe item)
Recipe Manager: added properties for a recipe type to configure loading a recipe for editing controlled by a tag
Recipe Manager: added properties for a recipe type to configure saving and deleting a recipe controlled by a tag
Script Manager: added the RSys.RestartProject method which terminates the project and starts it again using the settings defined for a specified computer
Script Manager: added the RTag.MoveTagValueToArrayTag method which copies the value of a simple-type tag to an array-type tag
Script Manager: added the RTag.MoveTagElementValuesToSimpleTag method which copies the value of an array-type tag or its part to a simple-type tag
Script Manager: added the TTable.UpdateTableStructure method which updates the structure of a database table by adding new columns to the table based on data table fields defined in the project
Real-Time Trend Manager: added the "Automatic time axis" property for a trend
Real-Time Trend Manager: added properties for a trend to configure deleting chart data by a tag
Picture Manager: fixed displaying picture information (dimensions, file size) below thumbnails based on the settings configured in the Environment Options dialog
Picture Manager: improved highlighting selected pictures
Window Manager: added the "Perform Diagnostics for All Windows" command
Component Manager: added/fixed the English localization of component properties (the Level Fill Picture, Check Box, Gauge and Track Bar components)
Script Manager: added a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+F9) for checking all scripts
Script Manager: fixed text indentation in the editor
String Manager: improved editing strings - pressing Enter while editing a string ends editing and selects the next row
Communication Driver Manager: extended the "Release communication port when idle" property by adding a configurable timeout
Project Structure Manager: fixed saving the value of the "Communication protocol" property of a communication channel
Layer Manager: fixed hiding/showing a layer when the corresponding item is double-clicked
Restore Project from Backup Wizard: fixed the cause of the error that might have occurred while restoring large projects
Project Diagnostics, finding object usages: fixed the wrong detection of data structure usages
Project Diagnostics, finding object usages: fixed the wrong detection of SQL Connection usages
Project Diagnostics: fixed checking the Button component's localizable strings (the strings are not checked if the "Graphical button" option is active)
Environment Options: fixed saving the changes in the "Script Manager - Surround With" and "Script Manager - Web Search" option groups if the Environment Options dialog was invoked from the Script Manager
design window: fixed painting window bounds when the displayed area is shifted using scroll bars
design window: added repainting a component after renaming it so that the new name would be displayed
custom reports of type FastReport: fixed setting the DatabaseName property of an ADO Database object from a script
custom reports of type FastReport: fixed the drag and drop function in the designer's Data pane for database fields whose name began with a digit (previously, those fields could not be dragged from the Data pane)
custom reports of type FastReport: fixed replacing the links to report items in the report template after duplicating a report
fixed encrypting and decrypting a project - added releasing visualization windows and pictures from memory during the operation (previously, the "Out of resources" error might have occurred with large projects)
added the "-" character (minus) to the list of characters that are allowed to be used in file names
recipes: changed the terminology (Recipe -> Recipe Type, Connected Recipe -> Connected Recipe Type)

Runtime software

fixed logging data to tables in different SQL databases
added reading controlled by a tag from devices of type Sauter EY2400
altered loading recipes (it is no longer considered an error if the recipe data being loaded contains values of tags to which recipe items are not linked anymore)
introduced numbering internal system messages whose text consists of multiple parts (for example, 1/2: First part of text, 2/2: Second part of text)
added implementation of the RSys.RestartProject, RTag.MoveTagValueToArrayTag, RTag.MoveTagElementValuesToSimpleTag, and TTable.UpdateTableStructure methods

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

RELI-6567 - fixed sporadic displaying date and time in the wrong format that occurred on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (date and time was displayed in the US format; the format configured in Windows Control Panel was ignored)
trend viewer: fixed computing interpolated values displayed in the legend (values marked with the (*) symbol)
report viewer: fixed generating the node representing tomorrow in the navigation tree view
report viewer: added possibility to sort nodes in the navigation tree view
report viewer: fixed selecting the last day in the navigation tree view
report viewer: added generating time labels for nodes in the navigation tree view
report viewer: added highlighting the node representing Saturday in red
Recipe Editor: revised the user interface (recipe types and their folders displayed in a tree view on the left, a list of recipes of the selected recipe type in the middle, a list of recipe items of the selected recipe on the right)
Recipe Editor: added possibility to edit recipe item values
Project Manager: added displaying the quality and time stamp for structured tags
Project Manager: added commands for turning on/off detailed logging for selected objects
the "Server Web Page" command preferably opens a secure connection if it is enabled

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

fixed sending tag values to thin clients
server Web pages: altered and unified the look and feel of the pages
server Web pages: added possibility to log off
server Web pages: added support for opening a secure connection (SSL)
server Web pages: added server usage statistics
report viewer on server Web pages: speeded up generating the navigation tree view for longer history data
report viewer on server Web pages: fixed considering the "Day start" option of a report

Reliance Server

fixed activating a time-limited license stored in a software key

Web Client

fixed updating the data of tags of type "Array of DoubleFloat"
Real-Time Trend component: fixed displaying the wrong values in the legend
Combo Box component: added a warning about insufficient access rights when the user attempts to change the value
Data Tree component: fixed sorting the nodes
Data Tree component: display even rows using another color based on the "Zebra view" property
components that paint text: activated antialiasing
trend viewer: started displaying series aliases in the legend rather than series names
trend viewer: added possibility to specify the "From" time in the Custom TimeAxis Range dialog (previously, only date could be specified)
trend viewer: fixed sporadic scrolling to January 1st, 00:00
trend viewer: added the Auto-scroll option (if active, the trend viewer automatically scrolls to display the latest data)
trend viewer: fixed saving the trend image to a file (previously, the time axis range was not correct)
trend viewer: fixed sporadic failing to print a series or its part when printing the trend
trend viewer: improved displaying the ruler (previously, the ruler was not well visible when it was located at the beginning or end of the time range)
added a standalone window to display the alarm/event explanation

Mobile Client

fixed the error that occurred at project startup
fixed painting components contained in a window template
improved the behavior of the "Enter Value for Tag" dialog with numeric tags
fixed updating the data of tags of type "Array of DoubleFloat"

Reliance OPC Server

fixed activating a license stored in a software key on Windows Vista or later operating systems
fixed displaying the "Reliance 4 Servers" window on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003
minor changes in text strings in the program's user interface

Communication drivers

fixed computing the value of the "Array length" and "Character" count properties of tags in certain situations (=> fixed reading the data of Johnson Controls time programs and matrices in AMiT devices)
fixed computing the length of multidimensional arrays of null-terminated strings
Sauter: fixed writing to a tag with "Data word" set to D and data type set to "DoubleWord" (DE)
Sauter: fixed deleting a previous response to a user-defined message when sending the next message
Sauter: added reading controlled by a tag
Sauter: added setting the system time
Generic: fixed the cause of the error that might have occurred while receiving the data
QMD: handled the situation when a device returns an error code

Utilities

RDT File Editor: fixed previewing and printing the data in columns that have a blank name

Installation program

added possibility to select the language version of Reliance before the installation => only one installation program common to different language versions

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

fixed generating reports for remote users (increased HTTP client session timeout)

Communication drivers

Modbus: fixed reading the tags that are not updated through a communication zone

All modules

introduced a new memory manager
introduced new environment variables to be used in relative paths: $(UserDocuments) that represents the directory containing the current user's documents and $(PublicDocuments) representing the directory containing documents that should be accessible from different user accounts
Environment options: changed the default paths for projects, project backups, library and log files
changed the directory for storing program settings
added logging system information at program startup
improved logging memory status (added logging changes in the amount of used memory)
improved license detection after Windows startup
Managers: added a toolbar into the Search Results window
license detection: added logging debug information
license registration: fixed registering multiple licenses
license registration: allowed license re-registration
Activate License Wizard: fixed the subtitle when the activation was unsuccessful

Button component

RELI-5840 - changed painting the component in a design window: if the button not visible (graphical button with no picture selected), it's border is indicated by a violet rectangle

Notepad component

fixed updating localizable strings in the user interface after switching the program language

Real-Time Trend, Real-Time Chart, Equithermal Curve, Data Tree, Data Grid components

fixed loading settings from user profiles
fixed updating localizable strings in the user interface after switching the program language

Real-Time Trend component

RELI-5941 - fixed the order of series after project startup

Equithermal Curve component

fixed disabling editing the curve points
fixed replacing the component properties through the Replace Object Properties Wizard

Data Tree component

fixed painting the foreground and background of Display cells in colors based on limits
fixed indicating tag quality in cells

Track Bar component

RELI-5958 - fixed painting the component under Windows 7

Container component

current alarms/events: added the "Share column settings with other containers" property

Line component

fixed the sporadic "Invalid floating point operation" error that might occur while painting the arrow

Reliance Design development environment

"Welcome" window: added a command for restoring a project from a backup
design window: fixed painting the grid in the whole window on multi-monitor systems
design window: added possibility to display the grid on top of the components
updated the list of SMS service center numbers
Component Manager: fixed the error consisting in not allowing the user to edit multiple collection items at a time (e.g. Active Text component states)
Export for Remote Users Wizard: added the "Publish configurations" option that conditions generating the Web page containing the list of configurations; moreover, if this option is inactive, the links to configurations will be encrypted
Export for Remote Users Wizard: optimized exporting objects that cannot be connected to computers via the Project Structure Manager (pictures, actions, real-time trends and their series): only objects really used in the configuration are now exported
Project Diagnostics: added checking if SQL connections are used in the project
Project Diagnostics: added checking SQL connections for invalid links in custom reports of type Fast Report
Project Diagnostics: eliminated displaying error message while checking custom reports of type Fast Report
Managers: added importing properties with a value of empty string when importing objects from CSV format
Device Manager: enabled the controls of nested tag properties whose values are not adopted from the respective data structure fields (the "Eng. name" and "Eng. units" properties)
String Manager: extended the set of string states by the "Untranslatable" state
String Manager: added keyboard shortcuts for setting the state of a string
String Manager: added the "Translate by Google" command for translating strings by Google's free online translation service
RELI-5388 - String Manager: added possibility to edit text through a multi-line editor
String Manager: canceled the "Not verified" filter
String Manager: added the "Languages" command to the popup menu which brings up the "Project Options" dialog (Project Options | Languages)
String Manager: added the "Options" command to the popup menu which brings up the "Environment Options" dialog (Environment Options | String Manager)
Data Structure Manager: the "Offset" property of a data structure field renamed to "Address"
Data Structure Manager: added the "Address" (for writing), "Type identifier" (for reading and write) and "Qualifier" properties for a data structure field for IEC104 devices
RELI-6118 - Data Structure Manager: fixed importing the PTR_TO data type from ST (IEC EN 61131-3) format
Data Structure Manager, Device Manager: added possibility to import multidimensional arrays
Data Structure Manager, Device Manager: added possibility to import array elements as separate tags
Device Manager: added the "OPC" property for a tag (the "Sharing" page)
Device Manager: added the "Require note before acknowledgment" property for an alarm/event (the "Advanced" page)
Device Manager: added the "Alarm/event groups" for an alarm/event (the "Advanced" page)
Device Manager: added the "Null-terminated String tags" property for a device
Device Manager: added controlled reading properties for communication zones in Modbus and Wago devices
Device Manager: fixed saving certain properties of a tag in Johnson Controls devices
Device Manager: added the "InteliDrive DCU" model for a Modbus device (bytes are not swapped in String-type tags in this device model)
User Manager: added the "Send via E-mail", "Send via SMS" and "Alarm/event groups" properties for a user (the "Alarms/events" page)
Communication Driver Manager: fixed the default values of the properties of Sauter Driver
Report Manager: added the "Day start" property for a report
Project Structure Manager: added the "Send via E-mail", "Send via SMS", "On start", "On end" and "On acknowledgment" properties for a computer (the "Alarms/events" page)
Project Structure Manager: added the "Outgoing message encoding" and "Send multipart messages" properties for a computer (the "SMS" page)
Project Structure Manager: fixed the default values of the properties of a Sauter device's communication channel
custom reports of type FastReport: fixed saving user-defined variables
custom reports of type FastReport: fixed decimal separator when exporting reports to MS Excel format
custom reports of type FastReport: fixed the error that caused pasting the clipboard contents into script source code when using the "Duplicate" command
custom reports of type FastReport: added automatically synchronizing ADODatabase object's "DatabaseName" property with the "ConnectionString" property
custom reports of type FastReport: stopped updating report items' occurrence count in the template after closing the designer
custom reports of type FastReport: stopped automatically adding localizable strings to the "Variables" folder in the designer
Environment Options: added possibility to configure the path for log files
Environment Options: added possibility to configure text and background colors to be used in the String Manager for individual string states
Project Options: added possibility to define alarm/event groups (Alarms/events | Groups)

Runtime software

added creating the directory for temporary data of a data table if it didn't exist
fixed logging an empty string (the value of a String-type tag) to a data table in SQL Server 2000
fixed the error that consisted in loading disabled tags (tags that have the "Allow use at runtime" option inactive; the problem occurred only when using structured tags)
added sending alarms/events via E-mail and SMS based on alarm/event groups defined in the project
added reading and writing time programs from/to Sauter devices
added further program languages (Greek, Slovak)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

RSys.SaveCustomReport method: added reporting an error message if the method fails
trend viewer, report viewer: fixed showing dialogs behind the viewer window (e.g. the "Customize Trend" dialog) if the viewer is invoked from a modal window
trend viewer: fixed formatting numeric values in the legend (considered decimal place count configured for the tag and Windows numeric format settings)
Recipe Editor: added sorting folders by name and expanding the tree view in the left-hand column
Project Manager: added updating the value, quality and time stamp of the selected tag on the "Diagnostics" page
Project Manager: added handling keyboard shortcuts
added setting the components' program and project language after loading a visualization window

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

RWS.GetThinClientList method: extended the objects (returned in the list) by adding new properties containing information about the computer (configuration) selected when exporting the project for remote users
added possibility to run a selected script when a request is received from a thin client (e.g. request to connect, disconnect, log on a user)
report viewer on server Web pages: revised the user interface (avoided using frames)
report viewer on server Web pages: added possibility to display a limited number of records in order to prevent the data server from overloading
report viewer on server Web pages: fixed the month name displayed in the hint of a tree view node
report viewer on server Web pages: the "from" and "till" parameters in the address can now include time information
report viewer on server Web pages: the viewer now respects the "Day start" property of a report
fixed generating WSDL (previously, the "service" and "port" sections were invalid)

Web Client

fixed detecting Java Plugin in Google Chrome
all components: fixed painting text containing the "&" character
all components: fixed the error consisting in painting the yellow borders (indicating bad quality of the respective tags) even for hidden components
IP camera components: added displaying the camera's image right inside the component (the update interval can be configured through the "Options" dialog)
IP camera components: added possibility to control the camera (pan, tilt, zoom and focus) if it is supported by the camera
IP camera components: added possibility to transfer the camera's image and commands through Reliance's data server (see the "Options" dialog)
Picture component: added support for displaying external pictures (the access to external pictures are now provided by Reliance's data server)
added support for the Data Tree component
Scale component: fixed painting the scale numbers if the minimum is greater than the maximum
RELI-5790 - fixed the error that consisted in not showing a dynamically loaded tray window selected as the initial window (after project startup)
RELI-5961, RELI-5962 - fixed sporadic "freezing" the program that occurred on some computers at program startup if the main window's title bar was configured to be hidden
Data Grid component: fixed controlling the selected row by a tag and updating the tag based on the selected row
Display and Data Grid components: fixed considering the "Use locale settings" property (previously, it was ignored)
picture viewer displayed by a "Show a picture" action: added support for displaying external pictures (the access to external pictures are now provided by Reliance's data server)
trend viewer: fixed painting the ruler if the series name is long
trend viewer: fixed formatting numeric values in the legend (considered decimal place count configured for the tag)
alarm/event viewers: fixed the icon indicating alarms/events triggered by any data change in the tag value
alarm/event viewers: added possibility to enter a note related to an alarm/event
alarm/event viewer options: added the "Device" column
alarm/event viewer options: options are now separate for current alarms/events, current alarms/events embedded into a window through a Container component and historical alarms/events
historical alarms/events: fixed sporadic displaying duplicate alarms/events which might occur while downloading previous or next alarms/events
report options: options are now separate for reports and custom reports
fixed running scripts on server side when a dialog window is loaded and closed
fixed entering the access code when running under Linux
added possibility to enable/disable sending anonymous usage statistics
added further program languages (Slovak, Polish, Greek)

Mobile Client

Real-Time Trend component: fixed the order of series

Reliance OPC Server

released the first public version

Communication drivers

Driver Server: added logging
fixed updating the time stamp of array-type tags
fixed the error that occurred while terminating a project if the driver worked in server mode (if the "Accept connections in server mode only" property of a communication channel was active)
fixed updating the tag value if the update interval was set to 1 ms
considered the path for log files configured through the "Environment Options" dialog
handled the situation when reading historical data from a device is requested and the start time has not been specified
fixed updating the quality and time stamp of tags if the device is Offline
fixed slowing down the driver after an attempt to open multiple Ethernet sockets with IP addresses/ports that are unavailable
fixed the error that might cause the communications dump not to be shown in the Project Manager
IEC104: fixed the error that consisted in sending a response to the wrong communication channel
IEC104: fixed updating digital tags
IEC104: fixed communications through TCP/IP
IEC104: changed the way of sending the general query: previously, it was sent when a data update was requested, now it is sent as a result of writing to a tag whose type identifier is C_IC_NA_1
IEC104: added possibility to update a single tag by a command whose type identifier is C_RD_NA_1
IEC104: fixed receiving a message containing multiple APDUs
IEC104: avoided reading the value of a tag after writing the tag
IEC104: fixed sending a positive acknowledgment after restoring a broken connection
IEC104: handled reading the wrong type identifier from the project
IEC104: added possibility to set the driver's address as sender address as part of the cause of transmission
IEC104: fixed receiving I-Frames whose qualifier is different from 0
M-Bus: added support for device model Kamstrum Multical 401
Teco, Modbus: fixed updating the tag value through a communication zone if the update interval was set to 1 ms
Modbus: fixed reading the tags of type "Array of Float" through communication zones
Modbus: added support for the "Dial-up (modem)" communication channel type
Modbus: handled the situation when a received message contains a CRC even if using TCP/IP for communication
Modbus: added support for device model InteliDrive DCU (bytes are not swapped in String-type tags)
Modbus: added checking the length of received data based on the request sent to the device
Modbus, Wago: added reading communication zones controlled by a tag
Sauter: fixed the communications with EY2400 devices
AMiT: fixed formatting the error message for logging
Promos: optimized communications with PL2 devices - reading multiple tags at a time
Promos: improved checking the received data
Generic: added possibility to use the driver to communicate to devices that send data spontaneously (i.e. devices that don't accept any data requests)
SMS: added support for additional methods of SMS message encoding (Data Coding Scheme): 8-bit encoding (convenient for data transfer) and 16-bit encoding (Unicode text)
SMS: added support for sending multipart SMS messages

Help and documentation

added the "Building Automation" manual
added the "License Key Utility" manual
custom application interface of the Web service: updated and extended the examples by demonstrating the usage of new functions for reading and writing multiple tags at a time: GetMultiNumericTagValue, GetMultiStringTagValue, GetMultiNumericTagValueEx, GetMultiStringTagValueEx, SetMultiNumericTagValue, SetMultiStringTagValue
custom application interface of the Web service: added an example written in Java
custom application interface of the Web service: added an example for the Android platform
added the ThinClientRequestHandlingFromScript example demonstrating handling thin client requests in a script

Installation program

added a shortcut to Reliance Remote Control Center to the Start Menu
RELI-1053 - fixed "BDE Merge Error" that occurred when installing Reliance 4 on computers running Windows Vista or Windows 7 with active User Account Control (UAC)

Runtime software

fixed sporadic "freezing" the program that might occur while detecting the license key via License Service

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

substantially accelerated sending real-time data to client instances of the runtime software if the value or quality of a large number of tags changes (e.g. after losing or restoring connection to I/O devices)

Runtime software

eliminated the parallel logging of historical data to DBF files if the data table's "Database type" property is set to "SQL"
eliminated setting bad quality to tags when a communication driver is terminated if tag quality is determined based on time stamp

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

current alarm/event viewer: fixed displaying the time stamps of alarms/events (previously, they were displayed in UTC)
trend viewer: fixed scrolling to display older data if the data table's current file is empty

Web Client

fixed loading a visualization window that contained a Data Grid component with a hidden column header
fixed the action of type "Play a sound"

Communication drivers

fixed the error that caused drivers not to function properly if multiple drivers were used at the same time (only one of them was functional)

All modules

introduced accessing license keys via License Service
added action type: Show application's About box
"Customize Trend" dialog: fixed the error that consisted in not allowing the user to only configure Automatic maximum or Automatic minimum for chart axes
color selection dialog: added saving the selected palette (page)
RELI-4084 - added the version number to the splash screen

Real-Time Trend, Real-Time Chart, Equithermal Curve components

added possibility to customize chart properties during runtime

Real-Time Chart component

fixed displaying custom axes

Text, Active Text, Check Box components

component editor: stopped setting the background color and font to the controls intended for editing the component's text

Data Tree component

added possibility to duplicate a node including the subtree
added possibility to hide columns
the "Selected node" property: added support for the constant "-1"
fixed the error that consisted in not allowing the user to configure the properties of cells in the last column
fixed the title of the dialog for editing node properties

Data Grid component

added the "Element index" property
added possibility to hide columns
the "Selected row" property: added support for the constant "-1"
fixed sorting if the grid displays array-type tags with different element count
component editor: added possibility to configure the height of the column header

Animation component

fixed copying the "Run animation" property when duplicating the component

Combo Box component

RELI-4536 - fixed displaying the test value (previously, the item was displayed whose ordinal number matched the test value)

Reliance Design development environment

design window: added the Replace Object Properties Wizard
design window: fixed importing window templates (previously, the components did not link to data structure fields)
design window: fixed showing the "Snap to Grid" command (previously, it was not always visible)
design window: fixed showing the guidelines for aligning components (previously, they were shown even for components located on a hidden layer)
design window: fixed setting the change flag when the "Display Grid" or "Snap to Grid" command is invoked
design window: fixed updating the title of a window template after renaming the data structure
Environment Options: added possibility to turn on/off the indication (checkered pattern) of window templates' transparent background (Environment | Visualization windows)
Environment Options: added the "Also notify of new Pre-Release versions" option (Environment | Update)
Project Options: added possibility to restore defaults for an SQL connection (Project | SQL)
Project Options: added options related to logging information to a file (Project | Runtime module | Logging)
Managers: fixed sporadic failing to save folder name after renaming
Managers: improved sorting objects and folders in the bottom list view (always folders first, then other objects)
Window Manager: fixed the indication of windows that are not loaded dynamically
Device Manager: fixed importing tags from an OPC server over the network
Device Manager: added possibility to define communication zones in a Wago device
Device Manager: used different text color (gray) for disabled tags (tags that have the "Allow use at runtime" option inactive)
Device Manager: added the "Standard text"/"Custom text" options related to the "Log write commands to alarm/event database" property
Script Manager: added a new set of commands called "Source Block Tools"
Script Manager: stopped checking to see if the file exists when the user selects a file during code completion
Script Manager: added the "Enable running from thin clients" property for a script
Script Manager: added the "Log execution" property for a script
Script Manager: added the RSys.LogMessage method which writes a text message to the runtime software's log file
Action Manager: added the "Keyboard shortcut" property for an action
Communication Driver Manager: added possibility to configure the address for AMiT communication driver
Communication Driver Manager: added the "Release communication port when idle" option
Project Structure Manager: added settings related to controlling serial link parameters via NVT for a communication channel of type "Network (Ethernet)/Serial (RS232, RS485)"
RELI-5479 - Project Structure Manager, User Manager: renamed some properties of a computer and a user (the "Restrictions" page) - the "Disable editing trends" property renamed to "Disable Trend Manager", the "Disable editing reports" property renamed to "Disable Report Manager"
RELI-5479 - Project Structure Manager, User Manager: added the "Disable customizing trends" and "Disable customizing reports" properties for a computer and a user (the "Restrictions" page)
Export for Remote Users Wizard: added possibility to specify multiple server addresses (it is suitable for launching the Web client via Java Web Start when the server is accessible under different addresses from various network places)
Backup Project Wizard: fixed generating the file name that shouldn't be based on time stamp (Time stamp = None)
object selection dialogs: added hiding empty folders
object selection dialogs: added the "Select All" command
"Select SQL Connection", "Select Project Language" dialogs: fixed the selected item's ID displayed in the status bar
"Configure Component Palette" dialog: fixed closing the dialog after editing a page name
Project Diagnostics: improved checking visualization windows (dynamic loading)
Project Diagnostics: added checking the "Connection string" property (Project Options | SQL)

Runtime software

reports: fixed summary calculations
added logging tag write commands if logging debug information is enabled (see Project Options | Runtime | Logging)
revised logging information to files: texts are added to an in-memory list, the contents of the list are saved to a file later (reducing disk writes)
restricted the size of log files (by default, the maximum size is 1/2 GB)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

report viewer: added possibility to open data table archive files (the "Open File" command)
report viewer: added possibility to hide the "Navigation" and "Filters" side panes
Project Manager: added sorting tags by some columns in the bottom list view (Value, Quality, Time stamp)
historical alarms/events custom filter editor: added updating the text of the last used filter after switching the program language

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

fixed starting the Web client as an applet (previously, starting the Web client as an applet failed in some cases dependent on the computer configuration)
report viewer on server Web pages: fixed converting time stamps to client computer's local time
report viewer on server Web pages: improved the tree view (Sundays in different color, added help hints)
improved logging HTTP requests
fixed the security of the Web pages containing links for starting thin clients
optimized the amount of real-time trend data provided to thin clients
improved the algorithm of retrieving historical data to be sent to client instances of the runtime software (the data server splits client requests to smaller parts and handles them one after another => the clients get the first part of the data sooner)
interface for third-party applications: added functions for reading and writing multiple tags at a time: GetMultiNumericTagValue, GetMultiStringTagValue, GetMultiNumericTagValueEx, GetMultiStringTagValueEx, SetMultiNumericTagValue, SetMultiStringTagValue
updated the example for third-party applications

Web Client

the list of users, trends, custom reports and reports is updated when the Web client starts and then after every change made in Control Server
fixed the error that caused the program to hang at startup if the main window's title bar was configured to be hidden
fixed the action of type "Show historical alarms/events of a device" (previously, it displayed the alarms/events from all devices)
added support for running scripts on the server when the corresponding action is triggered on the client (scripts that have the "Enable running from thin clients" property active)
RELI-5606 - added the "Connect" and "Disconnect" commands to the main window's toolbar
trend viewer: added possibility to hide the limit lines when displaying a tag trend
trend viewer: added support for bar charts
RELI-5587 - trend viewer: added possibility to display a ruler (a vertical straight line)
fixed painting yellow borders around components that indicates that the respective tags are invalid
Real-Time Trend component: fixed the order of series
Data Grid component: fixed displaying data if the columns are linked to array-type tags with a different element count
Data Grid component: fixed column height if no column has a title
Data Grid component: fixed painting even rows in different color
Data Grid component: fixed considering the "Allow changing sorting" property (previously, it was ignored)
Data Grid component: added possibility to set a tag's value (value of an array element)
improved logging

Communication drivers

M-Bus: added a new driver for devices that use the M-Bus (Meter Bus) protocol
SMS: handled the situation when the SIM card in the GSM modem requires a PIN (the PIN can be specified for a computer in the Project Structure Manager)
SMS: altered the driver initialization by setting the storage for received messages so that the driver always provides information on received SMS messages
SMS: added splitting messages to be sent that are longer than 160 characters into multiple parts
Teco: fixed writing to a tag of type "Array of Bool"
QMD: fixed connecting to a device as a result of a request to read historical data
added support for controlling serial link parameters via NVT
fixed the timeout of updating the value of a tag in order to work correctly even if the value of the tag doesn't get updated (e.g. if the tag is unknown for the I/O device)

Communication drivers

fixed the error (exception) that occurred while terminating the driver and releasing the communications thread
fixed automatically connecting to a device when there's a request to read historical data
IEC104: fixed sending the Disconnect packet to the standby channel when connection fails
IEC104: fixed resetting the sent packet counter after switching to the standby channel
IEC104: added handling an unwanted Disconnect packet
IEC104: fixed repeating the write packet (except for the packet for setting the system time)
IEC104: added sending the Disconnect packet after receiving the wrong type of packet
Modbus: added support for MODBUS TCP communication on a port other than 502
AMiT: fixed the error in communication to multiple devices (caused by subsequent changes)
AMiT: improved the communication diagnostics

Reliance Design development environment

RELI-5201 - design window: fixed assigning unique names to components copied to a window from a window template through the Insert Window Template Wizard
design window: fixed hiding some items in the popup menu
RELI-5244 - Project Diagnostics: fixed reporting tags used in a window template as unused

Runtime software

RSys.SaveCustomReport method: added creating the directory structure needed for saving the report

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

fixed unwanted switching the program and project language after user log-on even if no language has been selected for the user
fixed the error that occurred when switching the project language after closing the trend viewer or report viewer by the border icon
trend viewer: fixed texts displayed in the legend (previously, tag aliases (names) were displayed instead of series aliases (names))

All modules

improved context-sensitive help
"Customize Trend" dialog: improved localization and fixed displaying certain texts
"Customize Trend" dialog: fixed displaying Russian characters on operating systems other than Russian
fixed displaying Russian characters in trends

Popup Menu, Container components

disabled the "Show hint" property

Combo Box component

disabled rolling the mouse wheel if the combo box is not dropped down

Button component

RELI-4625 - fixed hiding the state pictures when they get disabled

Data Grid component

fixed editing a new value for a tag of type "Array of DateTime"

Real-Time Trend component

fixed updating the chart title and series aliases in the legend after switching the project language

Reliance Design development environment

Data Structure Manager: added importing a simple user-defined data type as a data structure with a single field
Device Manager: added a new device type named "Generic" (uses a new communication driver of the same name)
Device Manager: added the "Allow use at runtime" property for a tag
Data Table Manager: added generating a unique physical table name when copying and duplicating data tables
Window Manager: added indicating that a window has changed by the icon of a red exclamation mark
Window Manager: added indicating that a window is not loaded dynamically by a different background color
Window Manager: added a new command for finding an object (window, window folder)
Project Structure Manager: added the "Data update interval" property for a server connection (supersedes the same-named property of a communication channel belonging to a device connected to a client computer through a server connection)
Project Structure Manager: added the "Complete data recording interval" for a computer (the "Postmort" page)
Project Structure Manager: added possibility do enter a URL instead of IP address for a channel of type "Network (Ethernet)" or "Network (Ethernet)/serial (RS-232,RS-485)" (allowing for connecting to the device through DNS)
RELI-2211 - Project Diagnostics: fixed reporting data structure fields as unused
RELI-4837 - Project Diagnostics: fixed reporting the text of a Popup Menu component's separator item as unused
RELI-4839 - Project Diagnostics: fixed finding objects (e.g. devices) with no child items
Project Diagnostics: fixed checking data structures in a Data Tree component
added the Insert Window Template Wizard which enables you to insert a window template in a regular window in two ways: through a Container component or by copying the components and linking them to tags
Project Options: removed the "Encrypt and compress transferred data" option (Web) (data encryption and compression is always used in communication with thin clients and never used in communication with third-party applications)

Runtime software

substantially accelerated the transfer of real-time data between a data server and client instances of the runtime software (only data changes are transferred; the clients don't poll for data, the data server sends the changes automatically)
fixed a sporadic confusion of tags during the transfer of real-time data between a data server and client instances of the runtime software on computers with different language settings (the problem might have occurred when using national characters in tag names)
changed the format used for storing postmort records (the new format is resistent to changes in the definition of tags within devices, e.g. deleting a tag or adding a new tag)
revised creating archive files for data tables (the new method requires much less computing memory)
extended the RSys.SaveCustomReport method (a custom report can now be saved in the PDF, HTML, CSV, XLS, FR3 and RRP formats)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

new report viewer (possibility to select a time period using a tree view, possibility to create and save filters)
RELI-3600 - fixed displaying tray windows that have the same alignment and different size
RELI-5040 - added closing modal dialog windows when a project is terminated or restarted through Reliance 4 Remote Control Center
revised the main menu (the "File" submenu divided into multiple parts)
added invoking the help system by pressing the F1 key if no key script exists for this event
reports: fixed the memory leak caused by exporting a report to MS Excel
trend viewer: fixed updating the chart title and series aliases in the legend after switching the project language
picture viewer displayed by a "Show a picture" action: fixed updating the window title after switching the project language
Web browser displayed by a "www link" action: fixed updating the window title after switching the project language
RELI-5053 - fixed the sporadic error while activating the virtual keyboard that caused the program to crash
changed the dialogs for the selection of trends, reports and custom reports into standard selection dialogs that also display folders

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

altered the method of checking whether thin clients run the save version of the project as the data server (ignored files that are not part of the project)

Reliance Server

RELI-4507 - added implementation of the RSys.SaveCustomReport method
the Windows service fails to start if the configuration file (R_Srv.ini) contains invalid parameters (e.g. invalid path to the project)
added possibility to register the Windows service in a way that allows for starting it automatically (introduced the "ProjectAutoStart" parameter in the configuration file)
added logging the most important information to Windows event log

Web Client

minimized the number of messages sent to the server
revised the main menu (the "File" submenu divided into multiple parts)
RELI-4774 - fixed adjusting the main window size to the screen resolution
RELI-3600 - fixed displaying tray windows that have the same alignment and different size
fixed the error that caused components to be marked with yellow border after connecting to the server
trend viewer: added a command for displaying the data from any time range
trend viewer: fixed updating the trend after changing the time range
trend viewer: fixed updating the trend after switching the project language
trend viewer and alarm/event viewer: added possibility to maximize the trend viewer using the standard icon in the title bar (only on the Windows platform)
revised the picture viewer displayed by a "Show a picture" action
added possibility to turn off playing sounds associated with alarms/events
RELI-4838 - Active Picture component: fixed displaying the linked popup menu
Container component: fixed disabling the component by a tag if it contains current alarms/events
Container component: fixed the alignment if the component contains a window template
Real-Time Trend component: fixed updating the chart title after switching the project language
Time Program and Teco - Time Program components: added support for tags of type "DataBlock"
Level Fill Picture component: fixed painting the component if the "Layout" property was set to a value other than "Normal" (previously, the component was not displayed at all in some cases)
Level Fill Picture component: added repainting the component in some situations

Communication drivers

Generic: a new communication driver designed for the data exchange (through a serial port or the Ethernet) between Reliance and devices for which a native driver or OPC/DDE server is not available
IEC104: fixed communication with multiple devices
IEC104: fixed memory leaks
Modbus: added possibility to read extended memory (function 20)
Teco: added priority reading the value of a tag after writing the tag
Teco: added mask write for digital tags for the NS946 model

Reliance Remote Control Center

fixed the communication with the runtime software

All components

fixed displaying Unicode characters in help hints

Active Text, Pipe, Notepad, Data Tree, ActiveX Container, AXIS IP Camera, Vivotek IP Camera, vector components

added the automatic substitution of some links to tags when duplicating the parent window

Button-type components

RELI-4540 - eliminated shifting text and the picture when the button is pressed if the frame has zero width

Check Box component

RELI-4293 - added the "Negation" property for the main tag

Data Grid component

fixed changing sorting if the "Automatic sorting" property is not active
added the automatic substitution of some links to tags when duplicating the parent window

Combo Box component

fixed enabling the confirm button after changing the selected item
fixed setting the background color

Real-Time Trend component

fixed repainting the component after deleting a trend series

Container component

current alarms/events: decreased CPU load if the toolbar is displayed

Reliance Design development environment

Managers: enabled the "Export to CSV...", "Export to CSV (Unicode)..." and "Import from CSV..." commands in the popup menu of objects (e.g. data structures, data tables, trends, etc.) that have subordinated objects
Data Structure Manager: fixed importing fields of type "ShortInt"
Data Structure Manager, Device Manager: renamed format CoDeSys EXP (import source format) to ST (IEC EN 61131-3)
Data Structure Manager: added possibility to import data structures from format XML (IEC EN 61131-3) - PLCopen format
Device Manager: added possibility to import tags from ST (IEC EN 61131-3) format into a Teco device
RELI-4699 - Device Manager: fixed importing tags of type "ShortInt" from PUB format into a Teco device
RELI-4649 - Device Manager: fixed exporting/importing dynamic limits of a tag to/from CSV format
Device Manager: changed the default value of the "Time stamp base" property of a device to "Local time"
Data Table Manager: extended checking the field (column) name in physical table of type dBASE (the name must not begin with an underscore and must not collide with the reserved names)
Trend Manager: added the "Order" property for a trend (enables you to define the order of series within the trend)
Script Manager: added exporting/importing some properties of scripts to/from CSV format
Project Structure Manager: displayed the "New Server Connection Group" and "New Server Connection" commands in the popup menu even in the Trial and Desktop versions (when either command is selected a message box is displayed informing the user that the respective feature is not available)
RELI-4570 - design window: middle handles are no longer displayed for selected components with a rotation angle of zero degrees
Project Diagnostics: eliminated checking links to localizable strings that are synchronized (replaced) with another string (e.g. the trend title with the trend alias or name)
Project Options: changed the default font (Languages | Font) and alarm/event display font (Alarms/Events | Display | Alarm/event text font) in newly created projects
Environment Options: added possibility to enable debugging scripts by an external debugger (Just-In-Time debugging)
Environment Options: added further file types that can be associated with the software
allowed starting the open project even if any project is already running in another Windows session (e.g. in Reliance Server as a Windows service)
Czech version: improved the help system by making it context-sensitive

Runtime software

added implementation of the RDev.SendCustomData and RDev.ReceiveCustomDataReply methods

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

improved support for Russian
added updating the list of trends, reports and custom reports after switching the project language
report viewer: fixed generating a print preview and printing (previously, only part of the data was loaded from the table)
decreased CPU load caused by toolbars

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

server Web pages: fixed the displayed project status after terminating a project
altered the method of checking whether thin clients run the same version of the project as the data server (ignored files that can change during runtime as a result of using the Trend Manager, Report Manager and the User Manager)
reports generated for thin clients and server Web pages: fixed the navigation tree if the table contains no data (previously, the year 1601 was displayed in the tree)
reports generated for thin clients and server Web pages: fixed the order of displayed columns
reports generated for thin clients and server Web pages: added converting the time stamps of records to computer local time (previously, the time stamps were expressed in UTC)

Web Client

improved the Trial mode warning message (mentioned the reason for the Trial mode)
RELI-4547 - added the warning of a problem while playing a sound file in the WAV format
Combo Box component: fixed the number of displayed items
Combo Box component: fixed foreground and background color
Radio Buttons component: fixed painting if disabled
Check Box component: fixed painting if disabled
Track Bar component: fixed immediately setting the value of the main tag on mouse drag
fixed saving certain properties from the "Chart Properties" dialog
fixed sorting in the object selection dialog
fixed displaying Unicode in case of Windows Look & Feel (added the "Use system font" parameter to the "Options" dialog)
added scroll bars if the visualization is larger than the screen resolution (only in the mode when the visualization is not adjusted to the screen resolution)

Communication drivers

fixed loading communication channels of type modem at project startup
IEC104: added the function of deleting a standby connection
IEC104: fixed processing data received with the qualifier of variable structure > 1
IEC104: eliminated sending the general query after project startup
IEC104: fixed the behavior when the connection is interrupted and restored
IEC104: implemented sending the general query after receiving the INIT frame
IEC104: fixed ending the communication when controlled by a tag
IEC104: fixed detecting the S-frame

Reliance 3 to 4 Project Converter

added the conversion of communication zone update interval to the update interval of tags

Other

added Reliance 4 Remote Control Center (file Reliance4\R_RCC.exe) to Reliance 4 program files

Display, Level Fill Picture components

RELI-4491 - added possibility do enable/disable displaying the standard popup menu

Data Tree component

fixed the confirmation of the "Create New Node" dialog (previously, the OK button did not work)

Reliance Design development environment

Export for Remote Users Wizard: added replacing the font MS Sans Serif with Microsoft Sans Serif
RELI-4509 - Device Manager: fixed the displayed results of importing tags from TDR format (Epos for Windows)
RELI-3189 - Device Manager: added possibility to inhibit an alarm/event by a digital tag (a so-called inhibitor tag)
RELI-3601 - Script Manager: fixed the border icon for maximizing/restoring the side panes
Project Structure Manager: added the "Save window position" property for a computer
RELI-4381 - Project Diagnostics: fixed the error that caused the aliases of trend series to be reported as unused

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

RELI-4507 - fixed the error that caused custom reports not to be generated by a call to the RSys.SaveCustomReport method
replaced object names with object aliases in various places in the user interface (e.g. the dialogs for selecting a trend, report or custom report)
fixed the background color of the bottom panel for displaying alarms/events (previously, it was dark gray regardless of the alarm/event status)

Reliance Server

fixed checking for new versions of Reliance

Web Client

added a warning about not being connected to the data server before displaying the Web page of a report or custom report, or the data server Web page
introduced a new input control (a drop-down calendar) for entering date
fixed saving certain properties from the "Chart Properties" dialog
fixed setting the value of String-type tags

Communication drivers

fixed the error that caused the drivers to load even configurations not connected to the current computer
Teco: fixed connecting to the Mosaic software running on the local computer

All modules

RELI-4290 - fixed painting Unicode characters on certain places in the user interface
Activate License Wizard: added possibility to activate a license automatically (without needing to use the Reliance Website or e-mail; an Internet connection is required)
added support for time-limited licenses (suitable for lending a license or a quick temporary replacement for another license, e.g. if a hardware key gets damaged or stolen)
added a warning about the "Caps Lock" mode being active in the "Logon User" and "Enter Access Code" dialogs

All components

components having a runtime editor: added support for the virtual keyboard
components with the ability to configure the runtime editor title: if the title text is not specified (it is blank), the component type name is used as the title

Display component

fixed updating the displayed value of a digital tag after switching the project language if strings for states "Logical 0" and "Logical 1" were specified

Time Program component

added highlighting the edited time range during setting the desired values in the accurate manner
fixed setting the desired value through levels (a double-click results in changing the value by two levels; previously, it resulted in changing the value by a single level)
fixed painting the timestamp with a value of 24:00

Real-Time Trend, Real-Time Chart components

fixed the serious error that occurred during freeing a window containing the component (Real-Time Trend or Real-Time Chart) as part of a window template embedded into the window through a Container component

Combo Box component

fixed painting the component (previously, the component blinked if the "Height base" option was set to "Top")

Data Tree component

fixed displaying the values in cells of type Display

Data Grid component

fixed indicating the current type of sorting

Edit Box component

added support for entering values of type Bool and DateTime
fixed the error that caused the entered value not to be written to the tag after previously entering another value being outside the data type range

Vector components

fixed painting the gradient color fill if the component is rotated

Reliance Design development environment

design window: added possibility to quickly activate a window (or window template) associated with a component by clicking middle mouse button on the component (e.g. a Button component linked to a window, a Container component linked to a window template)
design window: added possibility to quickly create a Container component linked to a window template by dragging the template from the Window Manager and dropping it onto a window
design window: fixed the "Alignment" > "Right" command in the popup menu (previously, it did not perform any operation)
Export for Remote Users Wizard: fixed exporting color-type properties for some system colors
Export for Remote Users Wizard: added possibility to start the Web client directly from the last step of the wizard (after finishing exporting the project) without needing to visit the Web page of the data server)
RELI-4047 - Data Structure Manager: added possibility to import data structures for OPC devices from CoDeSys EXP format
Device Manager: added information on data type size (number of bits enclosed in parentheses) to tag data type names, e.g. LongInt (32 b)
Device Manager: renamed the "Integer" data type to "SmallInt (16 b)"
Device Manager: added possibility to define tags of type "ShortInt (8 b)", "LargeInt (64 b)", "Array of ShortInt (8 b)", "Array of LargeInt (64 b)" in some device types (e.g. Modbus, Teco)
Device Manager: unified the data types of tags in Modbus and Wago devices
Data Table Manager: added exporting/importing some properties of data tables to/from CSV format
Trend Manager: added deleting the user settings file of a trend from user profiles when the trend is deleted
Report Manager: added deleting the user settings file of a report from user profiles when the report is deleted
Report Manager: fixed painting report title background color in the preview
Script Manager: added the RSys.Sleep method which suspends the execution of the current script for a specified interval
Script Manager: added the RSys.RelativePathToPath method which converts a specified relative path to the corresponding absolute path
Script Manager: added the RSys.PathToRelativePath method which converts a specified absolute path to the corresponding relative path
Project Structure Manager: improved searching (added further object types to the "Select Object Type" dialog)
Project Structure Manager: added properties for a communication channel of a connected device of type IEC104 (the "Received I-frame acknowledgment timeout (T2) (ms)", "Maximum unacknowledged I-frame count" properties)
Project Structure Manager: added the "Position automatically" property (related to the virtual keyboard) for a computer (the "Display" page)
Project Structure Manager: removed the "Create archive files" property from the alarm/event database configuration for a computer (the "Alarms/Events" page)
Project Diagnostics: added the "Communication Driver Manager" scope to the list of project scopes
Project Diagnostics: added a warning about objects with no subordinated objects (e.g. a report should always contain at least one report item)
Project Diagnostics: fixed the detection of data structure fields' invalid links to data structures

Runtime software

added prevention from logging a record with a duplicate or earlier time stamp to a data table
fixed reconnecting to the alarm/event database after losing the connection to MS SQL server
fixed reading communication zones controlled by a tag
DDE client: fixed the error that caused the DDE client to disconnect from some DDE servers (e.g. MICROPEL DataServer) when writing a tag
RELI-4331 - RAlm.CreateAlarm procedure: fixed processing the "StartTime" parameter (previously, it was processed as a UTC time; now it is processed as the computer's local time)
added implementation of the RSys.Sleep, RSys.RelativePathToPath, RSys.PathToRelativePath methods

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

substantially speeded up starting the program (only DLLs of components used in the project are loaded into memory)
"Select Date and Time" dialog (used in the trend viewer), "Rename Recipe" dialog: added support for the virtual keyboard
RELI-4459 - trend viewer: trend and series titles are no longer getting loaded from user profiles
fixed displaying texts of states Logical 0 and 1 for digital tags (e.g. in a Display component)
trend viewer, report viewer: enabled changing the position and size of the viewer window
alarm/event viewers: added displaying object aliases (localizable strings) instead of names (of devices, tags, etc.)
date and time input control: improved checking the entered value (the check is performed only after confirming the input, e.g. by pressing Enter)
added support for Windows themes
virtual keyboard: added possibility to display the virtual keyboard from all modal dialog windows
virtual keyboard: now it corresponds to the standard keyboard (includes all keys)
virtual keyboard: automatically positioning the keyboard is controlled by the "Position automatically" property of the current computer
Project Manager: improved searching (added further object types to the "Select Object Type" dialog)

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

speeded up starting the program: optimized unpacking the archive of help files for Reliance's data servers and thin clients (the archive is only being unpacked when starting the program for the first time)
fixed sending historical data of digital tags to thin clients (previously, the data server sent a value of -1 instead of logical 1)
server Web pages: added displaying the number of data points in the license of the data server
server Web pages: revised the links in the "Project" section
server Web pages: added possibility to display a list (table) of current alarms/events
server Web pages: new report viewer (allows for selecting a time range through a tree diagram)
server Web pages: fixed displaying column header texts in reports in HTML format
server Web pages: added possibility to display a list (table) of tags from all devices
server Web pages: added possibility to download information (e.g. table of current alarms/events, table of tags) in CSV format
server Web pages: added possibility to switch project language (it affects displayed object aliases and other localizable strings, e.g. alarm/event texts)
server Web pages: further minor changes

Web Client

RELI-3880 - added playing sounds associated with alarms/events
Czech version: added the Czech translation of texts in the dialogs for configuring trend properties, selecting font and selecting color
"Enter Tag Value" dialog: added checking the entered value to be within the range of the tag data type
"Enter Tag Value" dialog: fixed the format to enter a value for tags of type "DateTime"
added checking the status of connection with the data server before certain commands (e.g. commands displaying the "Enter Tag Value" dialog, time program editors, etc.)
fixed the action showing alarms/events of a device (previously, the action displayed alarms/events of all devices)
fixed building the complete names and aliases of objects (e.g. tags)
alarm/event viewers: the filter combo box now only contains devices that have some alarms/events defined
improved the precision of adjusting the main window size to the screen resolution
fixed detecting losing the connection to the data server if the client computer loses the connection to the network (e.g. if a network cable gets unplugged)
added the "Print Main Window" command
added support for the "Print Main Window" action
added indicating the quality of tags being bad by yellow borders around components
added automatically activating the current alarm/event viewer on starting an alarm/event (if it was configured for the alarm/event)
Data Grid component: fixed the error that caused the automatic sorting to occur even if turned off
Pipe, Active Text, Vector components: added indicating the error (failure, fault) state
Button component: fixed adjusting the size of pictures associated with button states to the screen resolution if the "Graphical button" option is active
Edit Box component: added possibility to enter a value for numeric tags
Time Program, Teco - Time Program components: fixed displaying the values
Time Program, Teco - Time Program components: added checking time ranges
Time Program, Teco - Time Program components: added highlighting the edited time range during setting the desired values in the accurate manner
Time Program, Teco - Time Program components: added possibility to enter time ranges directly (into edit boxes)
Time Program, Teco - Time Program components: further improvements and alterations to make the component behave the same as in the runtime software
virtual keyboard: fixed the error that made it impossible to activate the virtual keyboard after closing it from a modal dialog window
virtual keyboard: fixed the error that caused the virtual keyboard to hide after closing a modal dialog window (even if the keyboard was visible before opening the dialog)
virtual keyboard: added automatically activating the virtual keyboard for all modal dialog windows
virtual keyboard: fixed certain keyboard layouts (added missing keys)
virtual keyboard: fixed key labels when pressing the modification keys AltGr or Ctrl+Alt
virtual keyboard: fixed key labels in the "Caps Lock" and "Num Lock" modes
virtual keyboard: fixed the behavior of the "Windows" key
virtual keyboard: improved the keyboard layout initialization at first start
virtual keyboard: fixed automatically positioning the keyboard (previously, the keyboard might have appeared outside the screen)
virtual keyboard: added the "Clear" command for erasing the text content
Options: added the "Endless width" a "Endless height" options (used when displaying reports in HTML format)

Mobile Client

fixed displaying numbers in hexadecimal format
fixed the "Terminate the program" action
fixed the behavior during entering a value when HW buttons are pressed
Notepad component: fixed displaying scroll bars
Notepad component: added a warning message prior to erasing the contents
Notepad component: fixed the import/export
Notepad component: altered the look and feel
added Text data viewer
added missing texts in window title bars
added playing sounds associated with alarms/events
"Enter Tag Value" dialog: added checking the entered value to be within the range of the tag data type
"Enter Tag Value" dialog: fixed the format to enter a value for tags of type "DateTime"
fixed the action showing alarms/events of a device (previously, the action displayed alarms/events of all devices)
alarm/event viewers: the filter combo box now only contains devices that have some alarms/events defined
added indicating the quality of tags being bad by yellow borders around components
Pipe, Active Text, Vector components: added indicating the error (failure, fault) state

Reliance Driver Server

substantially speeded up starting the program (only DLLs of drivers of devices connected to the current computer through the Project Structure Manager are loaded into memory)

Communication drivers

Teco: fixed writing to a tag by multiple subsequent commands during communication through a channel of type "Network (Ethernet)/serial (RS-232,RS-485)" using the UDP protocol
Teco: added support for tags of type "ShortInt (8 b)", "Array of ShortInt (8 b)"
Johnson Controls: fixed reading the data of time programs right after project startup
IEC104: added error code evaluation
IEC104: added support for a qualifier with the C_SC_NA command
IEC104: altered the timing when sending TESTFRAME - the time is measured from the last received communication packet of any kind
Wago, Modbus: added support for tags of type "ShortInt (8 b)", "LargeInt (64 b)", "Array of ShortInt (8 b)", "Array of LargeInt (64 b)"
Modbus: added support for tags of type "Array of DateTime" and "Array of String"
External Communicator: fixed detecting a hardware key under Windows Server 2008

Help and documentation

extensively revised the manual for the development environment
added the English version of the manual for the data servers, Web client and mobile client
added the Russian version of the document "Data Exchange Methods"

All modules

added unpacking the archive of examples at first start
custom reports of type FastReport: altered the Chart object in order to be able to display values of type Bool in a series

Data Grid component

RELI-4055 - fixed automatic sorting

Reliance Design development environment

Project Diagnostics Results, Object Usage Search Results: fixed opening a component's editor if the component's parent window is was not loaded into memory
Device Manager: changed the default value of the "Time stamp base" property of a device to "Local time"
fixed reloading the respective parts of a project after saving the changes to the project in the Managers invoked from the runtime software

Runtime software

fixed considering the "Automatically check for new versions of Reliance 4" option

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

trend viewer: by default, enabled the Zoom feature
fixed doubling the title bar of the viewers embedded into the main window (current alarms/events, trends, reports, etc.)

Web Client

fixed saving some settings of a trend
fixed Russian text strings (previously, some of them contained HTML tags)
fixed verifying an access code if multiple codes were specified when exporting the project for remote users
improved adjusting the main window size to the screen resolution (the aspect ratio is preserved)
Pipe component: fixed determining the current dynamic state when the main tag value does not correspond to any state
Data Grid component: fixed automatic sorting

Reliance 3 to 4 Project Converter

added freeing system resources (memory, GDI objects, windows handles, etc.) while converting visualization windows

Installation program

changed the way of installing examples (a ZIP archive in the Reliance4\PostInstallFiles directory)
added possibility to create updates

All modules

checking for a new version: added to the runtime software, Web client and mobile client
checking for a new version: now is performed in the background (does not block starting the program if the connection with the update server cannot be established)
checking for a new version: added detecting updates
Activate License Wizard: added the option of automatically activating a license (an Internet connection is required)
disabled Windows Ghosting (caused display issues during time-consuming operations)

All components

fixed displaying colors in hexadecimal format in the Component Manager

Display component

fixed painting a transparent background if display style is LCD-2
fixed updating engineering units at design-time

Text component

component editor: stopped setting the alignment and font to the control (multi-line edit box) intended for editing the component's text

Active Text component

component editor: stopped setting the alignment and font to the control (multi-line edit box) intended for editing item and error text

Edit Box component

added support for the virtual keyboard

Notepad component

added support for the virtual keyboard

ActiveX Container component

fixed the error (with the message "List index out of bounds") that occurred after changing the selected ActiveX control and opening its property editor

Teco IRC component

added the "Choose module type" and "Module type" properties

Data Tree component

the term "Branch" changed to "Node"
added localization support
improved node duplication
added the synchronization of links in the tree definition
cell of type Display: added the "Show units" property
added applying the "Zebra view" property to cells
altered the behavior of Drag&Drop operations applied to nodes that include nested nodes
altered pasting nodes from the clipboard into the tree (the pasted nodes are inserted at the same level)
fixed dynamically setting the selected node
fixed displaying numbers in hexadecimal format
fixed sorting by a column

Real-Time Trend component

RELI-3824 - fixed the error that occurred when loading the parent window if the component was linked to a non-existent real-time trend object

Container component

window template: at design-time, the container is automatically resized based on the components contained in the window template in order to minimize the size
window template: added the automatic substitution of components' links to tags when duplicating the container's parent window

Scale component

RELI-3257 - optimized painting the scale

Sauter - Time Program, Johnson Controls - Time Program components

added possibility to configure State 0 through the component editor

Reliance Design development environment

Create New Project Wizard: fixed generating a valid project filename if the entered project name only consists of characters illegal for a filename
preset "/" as the default character (when creating a new project) to be used to separate complete object name parts (e.g. Device1/Tag1)
fixed calculating the position of window bounds
RELI-2898 - added showing window bounds for dialog windows and tray windows
Create New Window Wizard: added possibility to specify the size for tray windows (it is then used as start-up size)
Export for Remote Users Wizard: fixed releasing system resources when opening/closing a visualization window during the export of a project (the export operation did not complete on large projects)
Export for Remote Users Wizard: improved showing the progress
fixed the coordinates (displayed in Information Window) of the mouse cursor above a design window (previously, the position of scroll bars was not considered)
RELI-3774 - Window Manager: added the "Rename" command
fixed the position of components pasted from the clipboard into a window if the components had been copied from another window and one of the windows had a scroll bar in a nonzero position
Device Manager: added exporting/importing structured tags (including the nested tags) to/from CSV format
HELP-3253 - Device Manager: added the "Alarm/event delay" property for a tag
Device Manager: added the "Time stamp base" property for a device (the "Advanced" page)
Device Manager: stopped setting the font to the control (multi-line edit box) intended for editing the alarm/event text
Data Table Manager: added the "Convert to local time" property for a data table (the "Advanced" page)
RELI-2663 - Layer Manager: fixed painting checkboxes next to layer names after changing the current Windows theme
Script Manager: fixed the situation when it was not possible to rename a script
RELI-3855 - Script Manager: fixed the situation when it was not possible to modify the properties common to all script types
Project Structure Manager: added the "Play alarm/event sounds" property for a computer (the "Alarms/Events" page)
Project Structure Manager: replaced the "Full name" and "IP address" properties of a computer with the "Address" property
Project Structure Manager: added the "Alternative server address" property for a server connection
Custom Report Manager: fixed the substitution of report items' links to tags when duplicating a report
custom reports of type FastReport: fixed formatting the value of numeric items
custom reports of type FastReport: fixed the situation when it was not possible to configure page settings after restoring the default settings in the report designer
RELI-3144 - custom reports of type FastReport: added the "DateTimeToInt64Time" and "LocalDateTimeToUTCDateTime" functions
custom reports of type FastReport: added the "ConnectionString" property to the ADODatabase object
Project Diagnostics Results, Object Usage Search Results: before opening a component's editor, the component's parent window is activated
Project Diagnostics Results, Object Usage Search Results: after opening a component's editor, the component is automatically selected
Project Diagnostics Results, Object Usage Search Results: added preventing the user from renaming components while the results are displayed
OPC browse dialog: added the "Expand OPC Groups" and "Collapse OPC Groups" commands
OPC browse dialog: when the dialog is displayed, only the OPC group selected in the Device Manager is expanded

Runtime software

fixed saving text strings edited through the Managers
fixed the error that occurred when using the Ctrl-Space keyboard shortcut in edit boxes for editing text strings
added generating an error message if the latest tag data cannot be loaded (e.g. if the file is corrupted due to a power failure)
added restarting communication drivers if they have been terminated
fixed blocking disabled alarms/events at project startup
historical report viewer: added time stamp conversions based on the "Time stamp base" property of a data table
added further program languages (Lithuanian, Hungarian)
added English and Russian help

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

fixed blocking switching the keyboard layout when using security restrictions (if the "Disable 'Start' menu" option is active for a computer or user)
RELI-3640 - fixed hiding the title bar if the "Disable minimizing runtime software's main window" is active for a computer or user
alarm/event viewer "Properties" dialog: fixed updating the names of fields (columns) after switching the program language
historical alarms/events: fixed updating the title bar text after switching the program language
custom filter for historical alarms/events stored in an SQL database: fixed generating SQL statements (queries)
time filter for historical alarms/events: preset the last used settings
fixed printing the screen (added adjusting size to paper size)
allowed directly entering a date value into the date edit control (edit box with a calendar)
color selection dialog: fixed some text strings
improved showing the progress of starting a project
RELI-3306 - fixed displaying the virtual keyboard and message dialogs (previously, the program seemed to have "frozen" if a message dialog was hidden behind the virtual keyboard)

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

server Web pages: added detecting Java Plugin before starting the Web client using Java Web Start
server Web pages: added direct links for starting the Web client (without detecting Java Plugin)
server Web pages: added links to help for data servers in various languages
server Web pages: altered (improved) some texts
custom application interface of the Web service: added functions for reading and writing array-type tags (allows for only a single function call for the whole array)

Web Client

added possibility to hide/show a trend series
fixed updating the visibility of components based on initial tag values before connecting to a data server
trend viewer: fixed the sporadic situation when it was not possible to open the text data viewer
trend viewer: fixed browsing data if zooming is active
added further program languages (Russian, Lithuanian, Hungarian)
added Russian help
minor changes in user interface

Mobile Client

added further program languages (Russian, Lithuanian, Hungarian)
alarm/event viewers: fixed sorting
alarm/event viewers: fixed adding the "Acknowledged by" column
Real-Time Trend component: fixed displaying the X axis
Text component: fixed displaying vertical text
fixed displaying the unsupported components

Communication drivers

added possibility for the driver to only work in server mode on the Ethernet, i.e. open a server socket (port) and wait for a device to connect (tested only with QMD devices)
fixed logging the length of received data over a TCP socket
added a flag into the status word that indicates reading historical data

Modbus communication driver

removed the restriction to the maximum length of 120 elements in communication zones located in Coils and Inputs

AMiT communication driver

optimized communication with multiple devices on multiple channels (segments)

Utilities

added a utility for writing into RDT files (Utils\R_DTWriter.exe)
replaced the HwKeysUtil.exe utility with LicenseKey.Util.exe

All components (graphical objects)

fixed updating the displayed value of a tag after switching the project language when the component is contained in a window template and linked to a data structure field
fixed updating the help hint after switching the project language

Display component

RELI-3451 - fixed painting if the value color is black and display style is LCD-2

Real-Time Trend component

fixed synchronizing series properties with the Real-Time Trend Manager

Reliance Design development environment

fixed synchronizing the contents of the Visual Linking window with the Device Manager (previously, the Visual Linking window might display a deleted object)
fixed enabling/disabling the "One Level Up" command in object selection dialogs (previously, the command sometimes got disabled after invoking the respective manager by the "Manager" command)
fixed displaying ID (in the bottom left corner) for multiple identical strings in the Select String dialog
added possibility to invoke the String Manager from the Select String dialog
Export for Remote Users Wizard: fixed exporting the active project language
Export for Remote Users Wizard: data update interval is specified in milliseconds (previously in seconds)
Export for Remote Users Wizard: improved encrypting some pieces of exported information
RELI-2234 - fixed painting a transparent picture on a window background
RELI-3512, RELI-3180 - managers: fixed displaying the vertical scroll bar
RELI-1362 - Custom Report Manager: fixed enabling/disabling the "Show Report Preview..." and "Load Report Items" buttons
Data Structure Manager: added the "Eng. units" and "Eng. name" properties for a data structure field
Device Manager: fixed importing tags from an OPC server (previously, OPC items added to an OPC group created in the OPC browse dialog were imported twice)
Device Manager: added the "Automatically generate OPC ItemID for nested tags" property for a device of type "OPC" (the "Basic" page)
Device Manager: added the "Tag quality determination method" property for a device (the "Advanced" page)
Device Manager: exporting/importing tags to/from CSV format - added the "Eng. units" property
User Manager: added the "Disable closing runtime software's main window" property for a user (the "Restrictions" page)
Project Structure Manager: added the "Disable closing runtime software's main window" property for a computer (the "Restrictions" page)
Project Structure Manager: removed the "Computers" fixed folder from a control area

Runtime software

improved time accuracy of the execution of time scripts
fixed a sporadic confusion of tags when logging data to a data table
fixed receiving a value of type "DoubleWord" from communication drivers (if the most significant bit was set, the value was not accepted)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

improved Unicode support when working with files and directories
improved support for Russian
fixed painting title bar and border icons
Reports: fixed painting a column header frame
Project Manager: removed the "Computers" fixed folder from a control area
Project Manager: added displaying time stamp for internal tags
Project Manager: added displaying quality for tags
"Enter Value for Tag" dialog: fixed the message text displayed when violating specified limits for a tag displayed in hexadecimal format
eliminated a short-term painting of yellow borders around components upon loading a window if the tag values are valid
fixed sporadic failing to find a device from in script code

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

RELI-3427-1 - optimized sending real-time data to thin clients (only the data of changed tags is transferred)
fixed the error consisting in changing the decimal separator to "." upon connecting a thin client to the web server

Web Client

RELI-3427-2 - fixed repainting components after being covered by another window
RELI-3276 - fixed displaying the value of an integer tag with a non-zero number of decimal places and inactive correction of analog value
localized file selection dialogs
fixed displaying warnings of violating specified limits when entering a new value for a tag
added settings for logging debug information
components: fixed updating the help hint after switching the project language
Data Grid component: fixed updating column header after switching the project language
Animation component: fixed sporadic failing to paint the static picture
RELI-3275 - Gauge component: fixed painting scale labels
Display component: fixed painting the decimal separator if display style is LCD-2
RELI-3498 - Real-Time Chart component: added displaying slice names for a pie chart

Mobile Client

added support for the Windows CE 6.0 operating system
components displaying text: fixed loading properties of type Font (previously, the strikeout and underlined font styles were ignored)
vector components: fixed painting line styles
Bevel component: fixed aligning the picture
Bevel component: fixed controlling the visibility by a tag
Animation component: fixed the error that occurred during loading the component if there were no pictures (states) defined
Gauge component: fixed painting scale labels
trend viewer: fixed retrieving later data from the server (a duplicate value issue)

Communication drivers

added logging communication zone name, number of tags or tag name for a communication packet
changed the default time interval to 1 second for the timer dedicated to the preparation of communication packets
fixed memory leaks
fixed the error (Access Violation) that sometimes occurred during termination
RELI-3475 - fixed determining quality of tags for devices in offline mode
fixed determining quality of write-only tags

Modbus communication driver

added mask write for digital tags located in Holding registers using the 06 (Preset Single Register) and 16 (Preset Multiple Registers) functions
changed reading Coils and Inputs in order to only read digital tags defined in a project (if they start at 8-bit boundary)

Teco communication driver

fixed detecting the number of bytes received during communication via Ethernet using the UDP protocol
added support for tunneling communication via the MPC mode

Elgas communication driver

fixed reading data activated by the Exp_ReadData function
fixed reading the whole archive from the device (ELCOR-94)

Sauter communication driver

fixed errors in communication
fixed logging communications

QMD communication driver

fixed reading historical data from the device

Note: This is a cumulative update (it also includes previous updates).

Communication drivers

fixed detecting the number of bytes received during communication via Ethernet using the UDP protocol

Modbus communication driver

fixed writing digital outputs (coils) using the Force Multiple Coils 15 function

Web Client

fixed connecting to a data server when project name contained non-standard characters

All modules

trends, charts: improved look and feel of the property editor
license registration: added support for software keys
Trend Manager: fixed adopting user settings when duplicating a trend
unified some terms

All components (graphical objects)

fixed renaming components
fixed controlling components' position and size by a tag

Container component

current alarms/events: fixed updating texts after switching program language
current alarms/events: eliminated the temporary size change after switching program language
current alarms/events: fixed enabling the "Report" command

Notepad component

renamed commands in the tool bar and popup menu
added the "Word wrap" property
added possibility to configure the commands
added possibility to print the text

Real-Time Trend component

added updating the trend series with data right after loading the component

Reliance Design development environment

Managers: fixed the error that occurred when selecting a deleted object in the "Search Results" window
Data Structure Manager: added the "Matrix row count" and "Matrix column count" properties for array-type fields in data structures for an AMiT device
Device Manager: added checking if alarm/event text is not blank
Device Manager: added possibility to define tags of type "Array of Integer", "Array of LongInt" and "Array of Float" in an AMiT device
Device Manager: added the "Matrix row count" and "Matrix column count" properties for array-type tags in an AMiT device
Device Manager: removed the properties that define the length of registers for a Teco device (they were no longer used)
Device Manager: enabled the "Dec. places" property for tags of type "Array of Float" and "Array of DoubleFloat"
RELI-2401 - Data Table Manager: added checking the field name in physical table to be unique
Trend Manager: added the "Adopt User Settings" command
Script Manager: fixed replacing text in all scripts
Script Manager: added the "Terminate after exceeding max. execution time" property for a script
Script Manager: added explanations for some common script properties
Script Manager: renamed the "Execute even on change in data quality" property to "Execute even when data becomes valid"
RELI-2871 - Script Manager: fixed checking time script properties (previously, it was not possible to save changes in a time script configured to execute only once)
String Manager: fixed finding and replacing text after switching between the tabs in the "Find Text" and "Replace Text" dialogs
Picture Manager: the "Add Picture Folders" command pre-selects the last selected directory
User Manager: removed the "User ID" property from the outgoing E-mail configuration (SMTP) for a computer
Project Structure Manager: added replacing the data tables' link to a server connection group when duplicating a computer (the data tables connected to the new computer created by duplicating are automatically re-linked to the group created under the new computer)
Project Structure Manager: added the "Directory" property
Project Diagnostics: fixed checking the "Blocking tag" property of a data table
"Configure Toolbars" dialog: adding the "Restore Defaults" command for the Component Palette
Project Options: changed the default value of the "Return value even if not valid" option to active (applies to newly created projects)
removed the "Runtime" menu, moved the "Start" command to the "Project" menu
removed the "Project" > "Access Rights" and "Project" > "Languages" commands
the "Open Project" command pre-selects the last selected directory
removed the window title string from the respective RDT file (replaced with a string ID)
added the "Exit" button to the "Welcome" window
updated the English manual (Doc\Design_ENU.pdf)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

current alarms/events: fixed displaying Unicode characters
alarm/event report preview: fixed displaying Unicode characters
current alarms/events: added updating status bar texts after switching program language
added automatically showing the virtual keyboard (if required) in all modal dialogs
fixed centering a visualization window of type dialog shown in exclusive mode (modal dialog)
RELI-2310 - User Manager: added preventing a user administrator from being able to delete a user assigned the servicing right
added warning about an invalid SQL connection used for data tables during project startup
RELI-2903 - added checking the security restrictions for some types of actions (Show User Manager, Show Trend Manager, Show Report Manager, Print screen)
Alarm/Event Report Editor: fixed updating texts after switching program language
used the font selected in the project (Project Options | Alarms/Events | Display | Font) for displaying alarms/events in the bottom panel
added Czech help and manual (Help\Runtime_CSY.chm, Doc\Runtime_CSY.pdf)

Reliance Control Server

speeded up opening the server Web page upon launching the program by the "Start Reliance Control Server and open Web page" from the Export Project for Remote Users Wizard

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

fixed setting the value of tags nested within structured tags from another instance of the runtime software
added built-in Czech help in HTML format
added a Web page warning about license not available for thin clients (remote users)
added information about license registration
minor changes in server Web pages

Web Client

decreased CPU load while processing the data sent by data servers (replaced XML parser, replaced Base64 encoder) - optimized for large projects
allowed JRE to use more memory (1024MB)
"Tag Information" window: added continuously updating displayed information
"Alarm/Event Information" window: added continuously updating displayed information
RELI-3015 - components displaying text: fixed loading properties of type Font (previously, the strikeout and underlined font styles were ignored)
RELI-3010 - vector components: fixed painting line styles
Time Program, Teco - Time Program components: added the time program editor
Radio Buttons component: fixed painting the buttons
Button component: fixed the error of not activating some windows in projects converted from the Reliance 3 format
Bevel component: fixed aligning the picture
Bevel component: fixed controlling the visibility by a tag
Notepad component: added exporting/importing to/from a file
Notepad component: fixed word wrapping text
Notepad component: fixed using the right font
Notepad component: fixed showing a popup menu
Notepad component: fixed updating commands after switching program language
Animation component: fixed the error that occurred during loading the component if there were no pictures (states) defined
Popup Menu component: added showing the "Enter Value for Tag" dialog if clicking on a menu item linked to a tag
Data Grid component: fixed the column header visibility
Data Grid component: fixed selecting the whole row
Data Grid component: fixed the scroll bar visibility
Data Grid component: fixed grid lines visibility (horizontal and vertical division)
Data Grid component: fixed row height
Data Grid component: fixed aligning the value
Data Grid component: fixed displaying the data shifted by an offset
Combo Box component: fixed setting the selected item if the tag value does not correspond to any item
RELI-3104 - Gauge component: fixed painting scale labels
RELI-3207 - Real-Time Chart component: added support for additional series types
fixed displaying Unicode characters at some places
www link action: fixed showing the link if the protocol was missing (e.g. http://)
trend viewer: fixed retrieving later data from the server (a duplicate value issue)
added built-in Czech help
minor changes in texts and user interface

Mobile Client

"Tag Information" window: added continuously updating displayed information
"Alarm/Event Information" window: added continuously updating displayed information
improved program code security

Communication drivers

fixed communication error on the "Network (Ethernet)/Serial (RS-232,RS-485)" communication channel if using the TCP/IP protocol and multiple devices with the same IP address
added closing the Ethernet socket after finishing reading the data if the connection to the device was caused by a request for reading historical data

Modbus communication driver

fixed reading digital tags if another tag of a different data type (Word, Float) existed with the same address
fixed reading digital inputs and outputs

Teco communication driver

fixed the optimization of communication via Ethernet
fixed reading/writing data from/to the Databox if the read/written data occupies multiple memory pages

Promos communication driver

added support for the "RT" and "PL2" models

AMiT communication driver

fixed generating configuration strings based on information from a project
added support for digital tags
added support for array-type tags (matrices)
fixed writing data

QMD communication driver

fixed reading real-time data

Reliance 3 to 4 Project Converter

added converting the "Swap bytes" and "Swap words" properties of a Modbus device
added converting the properties of a Promos device
added converting data types of tags in a Promos device

RDT File Editor utility

added the "Edit > Find" and "Edit > Replace" commands
added the "Options > Font" command (enables you to change the font used for displaying the data in the grid)

Tannery example project

revised the project so that it uses the new features of Reliance 4
added the Japanese localization
provided full functionality in thin clients
added custom reports

Installation program

fixed associating files with the .rdt, .rrt, .rrp extensions

Modbus communication driver

fixed reading data of a digital tag if a tag with the same address existed in another device

Teco communication driver

fixed communication error on the "Network (Ethernet)/Serial (RS-232,RS-485)" communication channel

All modules

added action type: Show records related to all windows
added action type: Show records related to active window
added action type: Show the list of program languages
added action type: Activate a program language
added action type: Show virtual keyboard
added action type: Show system information
added action type: Show Project Manager
added action type: Print screen
added action type: Play a sound
trend charts, diagrams: added possibility to configure additional axes
added the "Register License..." command to the "Help" menu
Activate License Wizard: added a command for saving the registration key to a file
changed some terms in the context of a visualization project: "Database Table" -> "Data Table", "Database Field" -> "Data Table Field"
Managers: increased the default width so that all tool bar commands are displayed

Popup Menu component

fixed updating the text of menu items after switching the project language

Display component

fixed showing a popup menu after clicking right mouse button
component editor: added controls for configuring the "Frame" property

Progress Bar component

component editor: added controls for configuring the "Frame" property

Text, Active Text, Check Box components

component editor: fixed preview background color

Radio Buttons component

component editor: added controls for configuring the "Frame" property
look of radio buttons is now dependent on the operating system

Edit Box component

RELI-2451 - fixed sporadic failing to paint the label

Container component

RELI-2728 - fixed updating the container after linking it to another window template

Notepad component

fixed painting the horizontal scroll bar for text aligned in a way other than "Left"

Sauter Time Program component

fixed the "List index out of bounds" error that occurred during runtime

Track Bar component

component editor: allowed configuring dynamic height

Multimedia Player component

component editor: added the control (check box) for configuring the "Negation" property for the main tag

Data Grid component

added the "Zebra view" property to display even rows using another color

Data Tree component

RELI-2358 - allowed linking a cell of type "Active text" to a digital tag
"Edit Tree Structure" dialog: fixed indicating modified nodes
improved updating the tree after changing a node's picture
removed the "Show root" property
added the "Scroll bars", "Select-background color" and "Zebra view" properties

Real-Time Trend component

fixed the order of series after loading a project
fixed synchronizing series name in the legend

Reliance Design development environment

new Communication Driver Manager
design window: fixed automatically aligning components
design window: handled adding a component on a hidden layer
Window Manager: a duplicated window is now placed into the same folder as the source window
Window Manager: RELI-2739 - fixed enabling commands
Export for Remote Users Wizard: added possibility to configure creating and placing a shortcut to Web client (if launched using Java Web Start) on Windows desktop and Start menu
Export for Remote Users Wizard: fixed the error that occurred if the computer's "Data Tables" folder contained an invalid link to a data table (e.g. if the data table has been deleted)
Export for Remote Users Wizard: improved specifying the data server address
Project Diagnostics: improved finding unused text strings in custom reports of type "FastReport"
Project Diagnostics: fixed finding unused actions in the tree structure of Data Tree components
Project Diagnostics: RELI-2402 - fixed performing the diagnostics of the selected scope of a project
Project Diagnostics: RELI-1311 - fixed reporting a false error for window templates not linked to a data structure
Script Manager: RELI-2239 - fixed saving a script's link to a tag after typing the tag name into the edit box
Custom Report Manager: fixed updating the occurrence count for custom report items
Project Options: fixed updating the Status label after changing language status (Active/Default)
Project Options: added the "Treat invalid tag value as error" option (Scripts | Other)
Project Options: added the "Log information about thin clients getting connected and disconnected" option (Web)
help for scripts: added a description of the RSys.RestartWindows method

Runtime software

limited logging internal error messages to the alarm/event database
added alarm/event name to the data object that can be retrieved in scripts invoked on alarm/event start/end/origin by calling the RScr.GetCurrentScriptDataEx method
historical reports: fixed column order in projects converted from the Reliance 3 format

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

trends, charts: fixed displaying Russian characters in the legend and property editor
fixed displaying window templates nested into another template
RELI-2206 - reduced border width for tray windows and sizeable windows (border width is no longer dependent on the operating system)

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

fixed failing of data server to return historical trend data to a thin client for series of type Bool
server Web pages: fixed setting language for the page after the request for disconnecting thin clients
server Web pages: adjusted the look of some pages
added logging information about thin clients getting connected and disconnected to/from the data server
added generating internal messages about write commands received from thin clients

Reliance 3 to 4 Project Converter

fixed converting the "Terminate script on error" and "Return value even if not valid" options
RELI-2520 - fixed converting print reports
fixed converting national characters (e.g. Russian) in scripts' source code
fixed converting national characters (e.g. Russian) in Radio Buttons components' texts

Web Client

system windows: added the command for window maximization
main window: look of the background (color gradient)
System information: fixed the displayed port number if the Web client is launched as an applet
System information: secured the list of users
windows: fixed showing a modal dialog window after project start-up
windows: RELI-2420 - fixed placing a normal window to the center
windows: fixed updating text strings in dialog windows after switching the project language
windows: fixed showing a window's popup menu
all components: fixed background color for some components
all components: fixed showing a component's popup menu
all components: fixed painting rotated components displaying a tiled picture
Real-Time Trend, Real-Time Chart components: fixed the look of the chart
Edit Box, Notepad components: fixed maximum text length
Notepad component: fixed the look
Clock component: fixed painting
Text component: fixed automatically sizing the component
Text component: fixed displaying a vertical text
Popup Menu component: fixed updating the text of menu items after switching the project language
Radio Buttons component: fixed painting the frame
Display component: fixed showing a popup menu after clicking right mouse button
trend viewer: fixed sporadic failing to display the data during quick browsing
trend viewer: added a settings dialog (settings are stored in the operating system's user profiles)
trend viewer: added a quick setup panel (3D, title, legend, axes)
trend viewer: added possibility to print the chart to a printer
trend viewer: added possibility to save the chart to a file (as a picture)
trend viewer: added a dialog showing trend data in text form
alarm/event viewers: added a dialog showing alarms/events in text form
alarm/event viewers: fixed enabling commands
alarm/event viewers: text filter is now case-insensitive
alarm/event viewers: added playing a sound (Beep) on alarm/event start/end
fixed entering tag values in hexadecimal format
fixed repeated showing the Trial version message box

Mobile Client

added allowing running only a single instance of the program
System information: fixed displaying the time passed since start-up (up-time)
windows: fixed painting background pictures
Data Grid component: handled the "Zebra view" property
Text component: adjusted the size of displayed text
Text component: fixed displaying a vertical text
trend viewer: added a settings dialog (settings are stored in the operating system's user profiles)
trend viewer: added a quick setup panel (3D, title, legend, axes)
alarm/event viewers: fixed enabling commands
alarm/event viewers: text filter is now case-insensitive
alarm/event viewers: added playing a sound (Beep) on alarm/event start/end
fixed repeated showing the Trial version message box

Modbus communication driver

fixed communication errors

All modules

trends, charts: fixed displaying Russian characters in the legend and property editor

Components (graphical objects)

fixed showing a hint for some component types (previously, a hint was not shown)
RELI-2264 - optimized painting components (previously, a bigger amount of components in a window caused high CPU load)
RELI-2305 - fixed the error that might occur while automatically aligning components
added enabling/disabling components contained in a window template depending on whether the container component linked to the template is enabled/disabled (previously, some component types responded to user actions even if the parent container component was disabled)
RELI-2114 - adding checking access rights before running scripts, actions and showing popup menus

Container component

fixed painting a Container component linked to an empty window template (at design time)

Edit Box component

fixed handling the "Update timeout" property
RELI-2351 - component editor: fixed the "Password character" property label

Notepad component

fixed handling the "Update timeout" property

Data Tree component

fixed saving the link to an action in a node (the first column)
fixed enabling/disabling the "Enter Value..." and "Execute Action" commands (previously, the commands got enabled/disabled depending on the "Allow editing structure" property)
RELI-2324 - fixed performing diagnostics of the tree structure containing non-existent nodes

Pipe component

component editor: fixed saving properties on the "Security" page

Real-Time Trend component

RELI-2253 - component editor: fixed overlaying controls

Simple Time Program component

after closing the time program editor during runtime, the data is written do the device only if the editor was closed with the "OK" command

Reliance Design development environment

User Manager: disabled the controls on the "Restrictions" 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
RELI-2338 - Real-Time Trend Manager: fixed the "Tag" label (previously, the text was not displayed completely)
RELI-2338 - 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
RELI-2306 - Backup Project Wizard: added saving the project before starting the wizard
RELI-2256 - export for remote users: fixed generating the web page in order not to cause a repeated redirection
RELI-2281 - configuring tool bars: disabled dragging commands to the menu bar
fixed computing the check sum (hash) of project files (eliminated the dependence on the alphabetical sorting in various language versions of Windows)
fixed encrypting script files with empty source code
fixed the error that might cause a hint to be shown for components located on an invisible layer
fixed assigning a name to components in a window template created through the "Create Window Template" command from the design window's popup menu (previously, the components had an empty name)

Runtime software

fixed logging String-type tags to SQL databases
RELI-2340 - 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)
fixed the RInet.SendMail function's return value (previously, the function sometimes returned False even if the E-mail was sent successfully)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

RELI-2341 - 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

RELI-2306 - Animation component: fixed running the animation if not controlled by a tag
RELI-2339 - Data Grid component: fixed painting
Edit Box, Notepad components: fixed enabling the component by a tag
fixed the position of modal dialog windows
secured entering access codes

Mobile Client

Grid component: fixed displaying data

All modules

window templates are now transparent
in unofficial versions, added displaying detailed version information in the main window's title bar
fixed detecting a hardware key under Windows Server 2008

Components (graphical objects)

fixed updating engineering units of tags after switching the project language
RELI-2121 - fixed invoking the "Close dialog window" action from some components
changed the way of saving components' external data
changed the way of building names for external data files
fixed resolving links to dynamic limits of tags for components contained in a window template

Button component

used the correct project language for the query on changeover to the other state (state 0/1)

Text component

fixed displaying Russian characters in a vertically-oriented text
fixed dynamic height/width when the "Automatic size" property is active

Display component

RELI-2091 - fixed sporadic displaying the value outside the component when linked to a String-type tag

Circle component

fixed painting a color gradient if centered

Check Box component

fixed saving the "Word wrap" property

Data Grid component

the number of grid rows is adjusted to column tag's array element count if the tag controlling row count is set to -1 (previously 0)

Picture component

fixed controlling the component's position by tags when relative coordinates are used
fixed adjusting the component's size to the picture size

Active Picture, Level Fill Picture, Animation components

fixed adjusting the component's size to the picture size

Real-Time Trend component

RELI-1837 - series properties are stored in visualization windows

Edit Box, Notepad component

fixed the error that occurred while updating the component based on the main tag after closing the window containing the component

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 which enables you to retrieve information about thin clients connected to Reliance's data server
Script Manager: added the RUser.CheckUserPassword method which 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")
Create New Project Wizard: removed the "Create a separate folder" option
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: used computer hostname instead of "localhost"
export for remote users: split the "Allow remote users to control devices and acknowledge alarms" option into two separate options
export for remote users: added the "Enable forcing data to be updated" option
export for remote users: options configured through the wizard are now stored in the project main file (the original .tcl file is automatically removed)
design window: fixed updating layer names in the popup menu (in the list of layers shown by invoking the "Move to Layer" command) after duplicating a window
design window: fixed the "Division by zero" error
RELI-2088 - Project Options: fixed saving the "Verify user identity" property for access rights
RELI-2140 - fixed service center numbers for the providers Mobistar and Proximus (Belgium) in the file SMSCN.txt
Project Diagnostics: fixed the error that occurred when opening the editor of an object that no longer exists
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 a new version
Environment Options: options saved to R_Options.ini instead of R_Design.dsk

Runtime software

OPC client: fixed reading the value of a tag defined in a project as "LongInt" if an OPC server returns it as "DoubleWord"
historical reports: handled the situation when exporting reports and there is no default printer in the operating system
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

Project Manager: disabled controls for configuring properties of project-defined objects
"Enter Value for Tag" dialog: fixed checking the value to be within allowed range for tags in hexadecimal format
RELI-2049 - fixed sending e-mail messages with text containing line breaks (line breaks were previously omitted)
speeded up loading window templates
historical alarms/events: fixed disabling printing alarms/events from a preview
historical alarms/events: fixed printing if column width is greater than page width
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 pages: added switching language (English, Czech)
server Web pages: added switching language for historical data reports and custom reports (project languages)
server Web pages: adjusted the look and ensured validity in compliance with W3C standards
RELI-2041 - fixed encoding of messages sent by the Web service
added implementation of the RWS.GetThinClientList method
fixed sporadic failing of data server to return historical trend data to a thin client

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)
fixed painting tool bars under Linux
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
Historical alarms/events: added updating the contents of the viewer before opening
RELI-2141 - added hiding/showing the main window's title bar and menu bar
Circle component: fixed painting a color gradient if centered
RELI-2166 - Display component: fixed loading components not linked to a tag
RELI-2165 - fixed components displaying text containing the '&' character

Mobile Client

added possibility to display information about the currently logged on user
optimized performance: added freeing pictures that are no longer being used
"Real-Time Trend", "Real-Time Chart components: fixed displaying time stamps

Reliance Driver Server

added the R_DrvSrv_RegServer.bat batch file for registering the program as a COM server

Communication drivers

handled the situation causing a modem not to hang up
fixed checking the DCD signal
fixed repeating connecting to a device after an unsuccessful attempt to read data
communication diagnostics: fixed the statistics of received and sent communication packets for a modem

Elgas communication driver

added support for Elcor94
improved checking the received data for validity
fixed the error of not reading the whole archive
communication diagnostics: added further information

Modbus communication driver

fixed checking the packet used for establishing a connection
optimized reading binary tags data from Inputs and Coils
fixed reading the data of a communication zone that contains no tags
communication diagnostics: added further information

Other

examples of client applications able to communicate with a data server via a Web service interface: added working with a String-type tag
added the R_AppKill utility intended to terminate all instances of a specified application (process)

All modules

standard message dialog: used the font selected in the project (Project Options | Languages | Font) for displaying the message text

Components (graphical objects)

component editors: increased the width
component editors: removed scroll arrows of tabs (pages) in the PageControl

Picture component

added possibility to control the name of the picture to be displayed by a tag (enables you to dynamically change the picture)

Progress Bar component

fixed painting in the multi-color mode

Gauge component

RELI-1840 - fixed painting if the main tag has dynamic limits

Edit Box component

fixed repeated showing a dialog warning against exceeding a limit

Time Program, Teco - Time Program, Simple Time Program components

enabled linking the component to the main tag of data type "DataBlock", "Array of Byte", "Array of Word", "Array of DoubleWord", "Array of Integer", "Array of LongInt"

Teco - IRC component

fixed reading data from the PLC before opening the editor during runtime

Real-Time Trend, Real-Time Chart, Equithermal Curve components

fixed loading string-type properties of the chart

Button component

fixed disappearing button text after switching the project language during runtime

Text component

fixed text position when the component is aligned to an edge (e.g. to the top) and has automatic size

Combo Box component

added an icon for the confirm button

Reliance Design development environment

RELI-1835 - Managers: fixed the error that occurred when clicking on the bottom list of objects that only display the Name property in this list (don't display multiple columns)
Device Manager: added possibility to define tags of type "DataBlock" in "Teco", Virtual and System devices
Device Manager: added possibility to define tags of type "Array of Bool", "Array of DoubleWord", "Array of Integer", "Array of LongInt", "Array of Float", "Array of DoubleFloat", "Array of DateTime", "Array of String" in a Teco device
Device Manager: added importing tags of time program types (__TTP2__, __TTP4__) from PUB format into a Teco device
Script Manager: fixed sporadic "freezing" the program that occurred due to quickly opening scripts by double-clicking the tree view
Script Manager: used the font selected in the project (Project Options | Languages | Font) for displaying the script check results and search/replace results
Custom Report Manager: fixed the "Duplicate Object" command
Project Diagnostics: added script diagnostics
Project Diagnostics: added detecting unused objects
Project Diagnostics: used the font selected in the project (Project Options | Languages | Font) for displaying diagnostics results
Project Backup: added the Settings/Components directory
exporting objects to CSV format: added possibility to choose Unicode or ANSI encoding

Runtime software

improved logging debug information: added project name to every record (line), changed the time format (precision to milliseconds), added logging additional events (began opening the project, finished opening the project, finished loading project options, etc.)
fixed reading the alarm/event type from a database (previously, it was always "Alert")
added checking if communication drivers have the same version as the runtime software
added checking if communication drivers are loaded from the same location as the runtime software

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

Project Manager: made available in all language versions
historical trend viewer: fixed the error that occurred when reading empty values from a database table after a new database field had been added to the table (error message: Could not convert variant of type (Null) into type (Double))
historical trend viewer, historical report viewer: handled errors that occurred when saving settings to a user profile (if the profile path was not accessible), added displaying error messages
RELI-1940 - historical trend viewer: used Alias instead of Name when displaying information about a trend and trend series
RELI-1768 - "Customize Trend" dialog: fixed updating the color indicator after selecting a color from the dialog invoked through the button
RELI-1659 - custom report viewer: fixed sending a report via E-mail through an Extended SMTP (ESMTP) server

Reliance Server

fixed launching multiple instances of the program as a Windows service

Reliance Control Server, Reliance Server

RELI-1854 - fixed handling thin client requests for historical alarms/events stored in a SQL database
added a Web service interface intended for third-party applications to be able to connect to the data server
White/Black filter: added support for wildcard characters
server Web pages: added a link for downloading the Mobile Client installer (CAB)
server Web pages: handled a request for a non-existent page (HTTP 404) if the project has not yet been exported for remote users

Reliance 3 to 4 Project Converter

fixed memory leaks during a project conversion

Web Client

RELI-1502 - added displaying a virtual keyboard
RELI-1574 - added displaying an alarm/event panel at the bottom
fixed computing components' dynamic position
optimized painting vector components
RELI-1295 - added rotating components
RELI-1834 - Button component: fixed writing a constant, hexadecimal value
Button component: fixed text color in the "hot" state (previously always black)
Progress Bar component: added support for dynamic limits
Progress Bar component: fixed displaying colors based on limits
Real-Time Trend component: fixed the date/time format on the time axis
Real-Time Chart component: fixed updating the data
Picture, Active Picture, Animation components: fixed resizing the component based on the picture
Combo Box component: fixed the component's behavior when linked to a string-type tag
RELI-1931 - fixed setting a tag's value through an action
RELI-1934 - fixed activating a visualization window related to an alarm/event
many user interface improvements

Mobile Client

fixed computing components' dynamic position
Progress Bar component: added support for dynamic limits
Combo Box component: fixed the component's behavior when linked to a string-type tag
fixed running the program on devices of type WindowsCE
added possibility to run the program in fullscreen mode
added possibility to rotate the program's GUI on devices of type PocketPC

Other

added a PDF document describing how to activate a license (Doc\LicenseActivation.pdf)
added examples on creating a client application able to communicate with a data server via a Web service interface (Object Pascal - Borland Delphi 7, C# - Microsoft Visual Studio)

All modules

EurekaLog error dialog replaced in most cases with a standard error message dialog
added keyboard shortcuts in the standard message dialog

Progress Bar component

added possibility to link minimum and maximum to tags (enables you to dynamically change the range)
added possibility to link warning and critical limits to the respective limits of the main tag

Edit Box component

fixed displaying decimal place count
added ending edit mode when another window is activated
enhanced security features related to entering a value

Notepad component

added possibility to show or hide the toolbar
added ending edit mode when another window is activated
fixed watching file changes (did not work correctly if the file did not exist when the component was created)

Data Tree component

fixed updating the cell type name in the list of used cells of a node
fixed the last column's width

Popup Menu component

started using the "Visible" property during runtime

Reliance Design development environment

Managers: replaced "Cancel" with the "Close" command
Device Manager: removed the length restriction of a tag's "OPC ItemID", "DDE Item" and "Technical name" properties
Device Manager: added possibility to define tags of type "DoubleFloat" and "DateTime" in a Teco device
Database Table Manager: fixed the "Archive files" property (the "Daily" and "Monthly" options were swapped)
Script Manager: fixed renaming a script when the "Properties" pane is hidden
Custom Report Manager: fixed loading a template (*.rrt) before displaying a preview from the Custom Report Manager
Custom Report Manager: fixed generating event scripts
Custom Report Manager: fixed displaying Query Builder from a table not linked to a database
Project Structure Manager: added the "Main\CustomReports" and "ThinClients" directories to the list of directories that can be automatically updated
fixed saving access rights required by an object when access right names were renamed during selecting them
fixed editing visualization window properties
fixed considering a window's scroll bars position by a component (previously, components might have an incorrect position after duplicating a window)
encrypted some parameters exported for thin clients

Runtime software

optimized previewing historical and custom reports (previously, there was 99% CPU usage)
fixed the RSys.PrintCustomReport method (eliminated displaying a printer setup dialog)
fixed formatting time in the main window toolbar (time did not fit in the place)
fixed connecting to a standby server when connection with the primary server is lost
OPC client: fixed sporadic failing of read and write operations invoked from a script
fixed sporadic failing of the write operation (setting a tag's value) invoked through an action

Reliance Control Server", "Reliance Server

added notifying thin clients of data quality changes
changed encryption of data exchanged with thin clients

Web Client

fixed entering the value of tags with decimal place count greater than 1
added enabling the command for showing a tag's trend based on whether the tag is logged to a database
Popup Menu component: started using the "Visible" property
Active Text component: fixed blinking
new Options dialog: alarms/events viewer column settings
new Options dialog: custom report format settings
new Options dialog: options for suppressing some confirmation dialogs
added saving windows positions and alarms/events viewer column settings on exit
secured and obfuscated the program code
fixed the error consisting in handling mouse clicks by components overlaid by another window

Mobile Client

added enabling the command for showing a tag's trend based on whether the tag is logged to a database
Popup Menu component: started using the "Visible" property
new Options dialog: alarms/events viewer column settings
secured and obfuscated the program code
fixed sorting in alarms/events viewers

Communication drivers

fixed computing address, register type and bit number of structured tags when loading a project

Reliance 3 to 4 Project Converter

fixed converting state texts of Active Text components (state texts were missing in converted projects; the error originated in version 4.0.10)
fixed converting visualization window titles if they used a character set other than that of the operating system on which the conversion was performed (e.g. Russian strings on English Windows)

Teco - Time Program component

changed internal format of the "Heating/Air-conditioning" time program

AXIS IP Camera component

added duplicating certain properties
added possibility to maximize/restore the camera image on double-click

Reliance Design development environment

Device Manager: added support for devices of type "AMiT" and "Inmat"
Device Manager: fixed importing tags from CoDeSys EXP format (under certain conditions, tag address was not imported)
Script Manager: added the "Insert Parameter" command
Script Manager: extended the RSys.SetProjectLanguage method (accepts also language ID)
Script Manager: extended the RSys.SetProgramLanguage method (accepts also language name - "CSY", "ENU", "PLK", "RUS", "DEU")
Custom Report Manager: added SQL Query Builder
Custom Report Manager: added support for charts
Custom Report Manager: fixed group bands
Custom Report Manager: added the Int64TimeToDateTime and UTCDateTimeToLocalDateTime functions
Environment Options: added Script Manager options
Backup Project Wizard: added backing up the Main\CustomReports directory

Runtime software

alarm/event viewers: added the "Priority" column
current alarm/event viewer: added saving the position before terminating the project
improved logging debug information (added logging additional events)
fixed creating archive files of historical database tables (creating archive files was delayed)
fixed the function RSys.SaveCustomReport (it did not work if the report template was in TXT and HTML format)

Reliance Control Server, Reliance Server

fixed "freezing" the program that might occur during communication with thin clients
fixed the error that caused the built-in Web server (Web service) to stop responding to thin clients
fixed memory leaks that occurred during communication with thin clients
fixed displaying dynamically generated texts if they contained HTML tags

Reliance Server

added possibility to run multiple instances of the program (Windows Services) on a single computer

Web Client

fixed positioning non-maximized visualization windows
localized certain text strings
alarm/event viewers: added the "Priority" column
Button component: fixed aligning word-wrapped text
Button component: fixed the error that caused the button configured as momentary to remain pressed
Button component: fixed the query before setting a digital tag (previously, it was displayed twice)
Data grid component: fixed handling the selected row tag
Data grid component: fixed the error that occurred if the grid contained a column not linked to a tag
Edit Box component: fixed alignment
fixed a temporary file conflict while running multiple instances with the same project
improved logging debug information (restricted the log to a maximum size, used file rotation)
deactivated logging debug information into the console (it might have caused a slow response of the program or disconnecting and reconnecting to the server)
updated the user log-on status after disconnecting and reconnecting to the server

Mobile Client

fixed positioning non-maximized visualization windows
localized certain text strings
alarm/event viewers: added the "Priority" column
Button component: fixed aligning word-wrapped text
improved logging debug information (restricted the log to a maximum size, used file rotation)
updated the user log-on status after disconnecting and reconnecting to the server

Communication drivers

added drivers for devices of type "AMiT" and "Inmat"
fixed the error that sometimes caused Driver Server not to terminate and resulted in 99% CPU load

Modbus communication driver

fixed reading a digital tag when bit number is greater than 7

Elgas communication driver

fixed hanging-up modem on error in communication

Johnson Controls communication driver

added connection type Ethernet/Serial

SMS communication driver

improved logging (used the Reliance4\Logs directory)

External Communicator

allowed running multiple instances of the program
fixed the error in the GetData method if the communication channel is configured to get closed automatically

Reliance 3 to 4 Project Converter

fixed converting text strings if they used a character set other than that of the operating system on which the conversion was performed (e.g. Russian strings on English Windows)

Combo Box component

fixed unwanted changing the current item after switching the project language

Reliance Design development environment

fixed the error while detecting the HW key that caused the program to terminate
hidden the "Activate License..." command if a HW key is detected
About box: added displaying the serial number/HW key number
Script Manager: added possibility to replace text in multiple scripts
Script Manager: added the "Print" command
Script Manager: fixed displaying the introductory help page by the "Help" | "Contents" command
Data Structure Manager: added the "Device type" column in the detailed view of data structure list
Data Structure Manager: fixed importing data structure fields of a structured data type from CoDeSys EXP format
Picture Manager: added the "Add Folder with Pictures" command
export for remote users: added the "Start Reliance Control Server and open Web page" command

Runtime software

fixed the error while detecting the HW key that caused the program to terminate
hidden the "Activate License..." command if a HW key is detected
About box: added displaying the serial number/HW key number
eliminated displaying decimal places for an integer-tag if the analog value correction is not enabled

Reliance Control Server

fixed detecting the number of data points available with the license

Mobile Client

Line component: fixed line width (previously, line width was ignored)

Teco communication driver

fixed reading String-type tags if they are located in multiple communication zones
fixed reading tags through communication zones (if a tag is located fully or even just partially in a communication zone and has the same update interval, it is only read through the zone; otherwise it is only read separately)

Modbus communication driver

fixed confusing the RTU and ASCII communication protocol types

Elgas communication driver

improved generating communication packets so that the queue does not fill unnecessarily
handled the situation when a modem returns the driver's request
handled the situation when a device returns current date-time value of zero
handled the situation when a device returns a historical record of zero length
added date and time of the currently read historical record to the dump of communication packets

Installation program

added registering file types with extensions .rp4, .rdt, .rrt, .rrp in Windows

All modules

software license

Line component

fixed component size being saved if the line includes the ending arrow

Edit Box component

fixed painting label background color

Data Grid component

fixed updating the grid when the values of related tags change

Reliance Design development environment

Data Structure Manager: added selecting device type before importing data structures from CoDeSys EXP format
Managers: fixed the error that occurred when deleting multiple objects located on different levels of the tree structure
Managers: fixed saving the new name after renaming an object by editing the name in the tree view
color selection dialog: fixed the RGB order in the hexadecimal representation of color
fixed saving a window's content after duplicating
fixed the help for scripts (some topics could not be found)
added saving all unsaved windows before exporting a project for remote users

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

Managers: fixed the error that occurred when deleting multiple objects located on different levels of the tree structure
Managers: fixed saving the new name after renaming an object by editing the name in the tree view
color selection dialog: fixed the RGB order in the hexadecimal representation of color

Web Client

Line component: fixed line width (previously, line width was ignored)

Communication drivers

fixed logging communication for communication channel of type modem
fixed loading modems into separate threads

Modbus communication driver

eliminated reading Coils of zero length when no Coils were defined
fixed receiving an exception: the driver does not repeat the request and logs the exception number to a log file

Elgas communication driver

fixed the error consisting in doubled date in read historical data
fixed recomputation of standardized volume

Level Fill Picture component

enabled rotation
fixed painting a color gradient

Display component

fixed painting engineering units

Reliance Design development environment

Device Manager: added possibility to define tags of type "LongInt", "DoubleWord", "DoubleFloat" in a Modbus device
Device Manager: fixed data types of tags in a Johnson Controls device
Device Manager: added exporting/importing some properties of tags to/from CSV format
Database Table Manager: extended and added properties for a database table (added "Read time-stamped data from device" to the list of possible values of the "Data acquisition method" property, added the "Last logged record" | "Time stamp" property)
Project Structure Manager: added controls for configuring logging data to a MEM file for a connected device
Project Structure Manager: added properties for a modem (the "Command mode transition delay (ms)" and "Idle period between dialing (ms)" properties)
Script Manager: fixed finding whole words in the script editor
Project Diagnostics: fixed focusing the control corresponding to a detected issue from the "Diagnostics Results" window
Project Diagnostics: added checking the "SQL connection" property for the alarm/event database of a computer
design window: fixed clearing the guidelines for aligning components
fixed saving components' position (sporadic one-pixel error)
visualization window export/import: fixed the file mask in the file selection dialog
fixed localized texts in the dialog for exporting a custom report to PDF format

Runtime software

fixed validity (data quality) of internal tags defined in physical devices (devices other than virtual and the System device)
fixed writing to internal tags defined in physical devices (devices other than virtual and the System device)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

main window toolbar: fixed enabling the "Previous window" command

Reliance Control Server, Reliance Server

server Web pages: added the command for disconnecting thin clients

Web Client

added displaying the tag value in the "Information on Alarm/Event" dialog
added preserving tables' row selection after updating
added possibility for the user to choose at startup whether to adjust the display of visualization to the client computer's graphical resolution
all component types: texts displayed using the right font
Text component: fixed displaying wrapped text containing the CRLF characters
Level Fill Picture component: fixed displaying the value (range is based on the active area size)
Gauge component: added painting the color scale
Check Box component: fixed aligning text
Data Grid component: fixed displaying data, fixed text color, fixed displaying scrollbars

Mobile Client

added displaying the tag value in the "Information on Alarm/Event" dialog
Gauge component: added painting the color scale
fixed computing components' position when scrolling

Reliance 3 to 4 Project Converter

fixed converting components' Hint property
fixed saving components' position (sporadic one-pixel error)

Communication drivers

fixed path to log files
added properties to a modem (Command mode transition delay, Idle period between dialing)
restarting a communication channel does not clear the communication packet queue

Modbus communication driver

fixed swapping bytes
fixed situation when a communication zone is longer than 240 bytes
fixed error in serial communication using RTU frame
supported communication functions can be different for each device
added data types for input registers

Elgas communication driver

added communication with devices using the Elgas2 protocol
added reading historical data

Reliance Design development environment

Project Structure Manager: added properties to configure a virtual keyboard (computer | "Display")
Project Structure Manager: added "115200 Bd" to the list of communication speeds via serial cable
Project Structure Manager: added "Siemens TC65" to the list of supported GSM modems (computer | "GSM" | "GSM device type")
Report Manager: fixed the error that occurred when canceling the selection of a database field for a report item
Script Manager: added the "Run on initialization" property for a script
Environment Options: added the "Show guidelines for aligning components" option
design window: added displaying window name in the title bar
Help menu: added the "Check for Updates" command to check for a new version of Reliance available to download
Project Options: fixed the error that occurred when deleting the last SQL connection from the list

Runtime software

added sending and receiving SMS messages through SMS Driver (R_DrvSMS.dll)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

Help menu: added the "Check for Updates" command to check for a new version of Reliance available to download
Report viewer: handled the error that occurred during opening a report if Borland Database Engine (BDE) had not been installed
added displaying a virtual keyboard to: "Log On User" dialog, "Enter Value for Tag" dialog, "Enter Limits for Tag" dialog

Reliance Control Server, Reliance Server

added processing some types of requests received from thin clients: setting tag values through communication drivers, acknowledging alarms, retrieving historical alarms
optimized transfer of array-type tags to thin clients

Web Client

added checking identity of projects loaded by the client and the data server
fixed activating a visualization window through an action
fixed repeated opening a dialog window
fixed the error that occurred when starting the Web Client on an operating system other than Czech and English
fixed downloading historical alarms/events
fixed acknowledging alarms/events
Data Grid component: added displaying data
Level Fill Picture component: fixed painting the background
Container component: added displaying current alarms/events, fixed the order of components contained in the window template
Edit Box component: fixed painting
Notepad component: fixed painting, fixed aligning text
Track Bar component: added displaying a scale
Combo Box component: fixed displaying confirmation dialogs
Display component: fixed displaying substitution texts for digital tags
Real-Time Trend component: added displaying a title
Scale component: added displaying color scale

Reliance Design development environment

fixed the error that occurred when opening a component's editor after closing and re-opening the visualization window that contains the component
fixed the error that occurred when closing a project containing visualization windows with embedded window templates

Runtime software

added implementation of the RSys.RestartWindows method

Web Client

fixed position of dialog visualization windows that are configured to show maximized

Components (graphical objects)

added the "Enabled" (CtlEnabled) and "Visible" (CtlVisible) property

Active Text component

fixed copying the error state text when duplicating the component

Internet Explorer component

fixed the error that occurred when terminating the runtime software

Track Bar component

added the "Scale inverted" (TrbScaleInverted) property

Reliance Design development environment

Device Manager: export of alarms/events to CSV format - fixed exporting/importing the link to a tag that is a field of a structured tag
Project Structure Manager: fixed painting controls for configuring device communication channel properties
Project Diagnostics: blank IP address of Teco and Modbus devices is considered an error only when communication via Ethernet is used
Project Options: added the "Absolute/Relative" option for component rotation angle
design window: window bounds (lines indicating the areas that will fit on the screen during runtime) consider the "Start-up size" property of trays

Runtime software

fixed connecting to communication drivers at project start-up on Windows Vista

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

Managers: newly defined objects (historical trends, reports, users) get automatically connected (made accessible) to the current computer
made accessible only objects (historical trends, reports, users) connected to the current computer

Web Client

translated the word "Akce"

Display, Radio Buttons, Clock, Level Fill Picture components

value of the main tag cannot be set by the user if the component is disabled

Reliance Design development environment

Device Manager: disabled the "Update interval" property for tags of an OPC device (the displayed value is adopted from the OPC group)
Device Manager: disabled the "Dec. place count" property for integer tags if value correction is not used
Script Manager: fixed suggesting methods names of Reliance-defined objects if the object name is followed by further text
design window: components created by duplicating are located on the same layer as the original components

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

User Manager: translated Czech texts
fixed setting a visualization's window size and position based on the "Start-up size" property

ActiveX Container component

fixed error that occurred during Project Diagnostics

Runtime software

OPC client: fixed registration of structured tags in OPC server

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

added User Manager

All modules

fixed disappearing controls (buttons, check-boxes, etc.) on Windows Vista

Components (graphical objects)

component editors: added indicating edited property values by changing the color of corresponding controls

Time Program component

translated Czech texts

Reliance Design development environment

Project Diagnostics: when an issue is found in a component (graphical object) and the issue row is double-clicked in the Diagnostics Results window, the component's editor is opened and the control corresponding to the property is focused
Database Table Manager: added the "Time stamp base" property for a database table
fixed updating a visualization window's title after switching the project language

Runtime software

Fixed displaying a popup menu for a visualization window
fixed updating a visualization window's title after switching the project language

Web Client

fixed updating a project from a server and running cached projects

HASP hardware key driver

updated to version 4.102

first official version

Main Changes

All modules

Data Tree component

Grid, Round Bar components

Button component

Combo Box component

Edit Box component

Reliance Design development environment

Runtime software

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

Reliance Web Client

Reliance Smart Client

Siemens Communication Driver

Elgas Communication Driver

Modbus Communication Driver

BACnet Communication Driver

IEC62056 Communication Driver

IEC104 Communication Driver

Cimon Communication Driver

SMS Driver

Example projects

Main Changes

Components with support for blinking

Active Picture component

Data Tree component

Pipe component

Runtime software

Main Changes

Components with support for blinking

Simple Time Program component

Reliance Design development environment

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

Main Changes

All modules

Edit Box component

Runtime software

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

Reliance Smart Client

Siemens Communication Driver

Main Enhancements

All modules

Vector components

Animation component

Pipe component

Equithermal Curve component

Data Tree component

Picture component

Edit Box component

Internet Explorer component

Real-Time Chart component

Real-Time Trend component

Real-Time Trend, Real-Time Chart, Equithermal Curve components

Data Grid component

Axis IP Camera component

Elgas – Gas Composition component

Johnson Controls – Time Program component

BACnet – Time Program component

Reliance Design development environment

Runtime software

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

Reliance Web Client

Reliance Smart Client

Reliance Mobile Client

Communication drivers

Elgas Communication Driver

Modbus Communication Driver

MBus Communication Driver

AMiT Communication Driver

Siemens Communication Driver

Promos Communication Driver

BACnet Communication Driver

SMS Driver

Utilities

Example projects

All modules

All components

Vector components