December 30th, 2011Fixed:
· Filter ascending on multiple fields did not work correctly.
· Filters could not be saved for multiple relationship fields. After a restart of Data Crow they would appear as having a blank filter value.
· Saving a filter will now immediately update the quick filter tool bar.
· Errors related to an unexpected appearance of the COMPANY column in the database for persons. This column has now been removed to prevent NullPointerExceptions.
· ISBNDB.com: error message when retrieving the number of pages for books.
· ISBNDB.com: error message when retrieving publishers and authors.
· Description fields had a maximum length of 8000 characters. This size has now been changed to 2147483647 characters.
· Errors while merging external references.
· External references not updated after updating the item from an online search.
· NullPointerException while importing an item from a CSV file without mapping all fields.
· NullPointerException when selecting Undo Filter from the Filter menu.
· Upgrading from version 3.9.7 (or older) to 3.9.10 (or newer) is now no longer an issue.
· Incorrect size for multiple reference fields when viewing items as read only.
· Hyperlinks to items were not working.
· Support for underscores has been added to the file renamer.
· NullPointerException when searching for ASINs (related to CueCat scanner).
· Various upgrade problems from the 3.9.10 version related to the associate names; names empty after upgrade, names not shown in the table view
· Pictures not shown after removing one of the picture fields
· Bol.com no longer working
· Errors for online book searches after changing the category field to a multiple relationship field.
Changed:
· Upgraded to the latest version of jAudioTagger (2.0.4)
· IMDB.com update for non US searches will now place the local title in the Title (local) field and the English title in the "Title field". This is only true if the setting "get local titles" is enabled. The option is off by default.
· Added an open to open items either in read only or edit mode by default. The setting can be found in Settings > Settings > General Settings. Additionally you now have two options in the right-click menu of an item "Edit" and "Open". By default the option has bee set to the old functionality which is to always open items in edit mode.
· Clicking on a column header will now ort the content of the table. Clicking again reverses the order.
November 21st, 2011Fixed:
· Amazon Search broken.
· Field content not fully shown for large text fields.
· Imdb.com ratings not longer retrieved.
· Improved error handling and additional methods to prevent items from being saved.
Changes:
· Removed AWS key configuration.
June 19th, 2011Fixed:
· Sorting and format of person names has been corrected for reports.
· Images were not removed from the media images folders after the item has been deleted.
· An upgrade process will remove all images that really should have been deleted on removing the accompanying items.
· Images not always correctly updated by the online search.
Changed:
· Default value for "Company / Organization" for associates is now set by default for company modules. Note that this value can be overruled by using a default template.
· The CSV importer will now import references correctly. Before it only supported single values. Now it actually supports multiple items (genres, categories). Values need to be comma separated.
June 14th, 2011Fixed:
· Sorting of artists, authors and other persons has been fixed.
· Define fields in alter and create module wizard: Data Crow now correctly checks for the entered maximum length for a field.
· Item importer states that the items are imported directly into the database. However, the items are actually imported first into the new items tab. I have changed this so that the items actually are imported directly into Data Crow.
· The XML item importer for images imports an empty item for every imported image.
· Non property modules could no longer be used as a reference for other modules (reference fields).
· Define Fields dialog did not have a help page linked (pressing F1 shows an empty page).
· Change password dialog did not have a help page linked (pressing F1 shows an empty page).
· Loan information overview did not have a help page linked (pressing F1 shows an empty page).
· In many cases the help does not clearly state where to find the functionality or option.
· File Renamer functionality was broken due to performance problems.
· Possible undetected closure of the database connection.
· Discogs.com service was broken.
· References not correctly cleaned after removing an item.
· References are now always alphabetically ordered.
· Fields not visible after creating a module.
· Database is locked after creating a backup (restarting fixes the problem).
Changed:
· For persons (such as artists and authors) the name field has been changed to read "Lastname, Firstname". On startup you will be asked to confirm the update.
· For associates (persons and companies) it can now be indicated whether it is a person or a company. For persons, the name will read "Lastname, firstname". For companies no name conversion is done.
· Picture field can no longer be set to be a descriptive field.
· For associates the descriptive field can now no longer be set manually, it will always be the name field.
· Define fields in alter and create module wizard has been changed to include: * Required = is the field mandatory * Descriptive = does the value of this field describe the item * Is key field = is this field use to check whether the item is unique * Tab = the tab of the item form in which the field is placed (replaces the "technical info" check box).
· Added an extra step to the module wizard to explain the additional settings that can be done for the module after Data Crow has been restarted.
· Order of the labels in the chart panel has been changed.
· Updated the help in many places.
May 13th, 2011· This version contains bugfixes only.
April 4th, 2011Changed:
· Portuguese and English translation have been redone.
Fixed:
· Item form is opened twice from property views when another item was removed first.
· Memory usage when importing images from web or file information has been reduced.
· Memory leak for image saving and loading has been fixed.
· Pictures are sometimes not drawn in both the new and current items tabs.
· When checking whether an item already exists in the database (such as a language or country) Data Crow will now take trailing spaces into account. An update is performed during the upgrade to remove all trailing spaces from existing items (related to the IMDB.com movie search update)
· Cannot remove contact person when the person has lend items.
· An error is logged in the log file when updating or adding an item after opening the container module
February 14th, 2011· Important bug fixes.
January 10th, 2011Fixed:
· Could not sort on actors, authors, artists and other multiple-references fields. Note that the items are sorted based on the first entry of the multiple references field. So if you have assigned two actors to a movie, Jan Jansen and Richard Howard, the first entry will be used to sort the item (in this case Jan Jansen). Technically this has been accomplished by store the first string representation in a separate field which is used to base the sort on. This field is kept in synch with changes made (cleared in case no entries, updated with first entry in all other cases).
· Countries and properties could not be edited.
· Items not removed from the card view after saving them.
· Container tree does not get updated correctly with parent
· child relationships.
· Unconfirmed fix; memory leak when importing movies file information.
· Settings were only taken into account (import > online search) after the dialog was closed and re-opened.
· File import, search for additional information on sub items, did not work for actors and directors when working with imdb.com.
· Filter dialog could not be opened from within the Book module.
· After updating an item the node in the tree becomes unreadable (appended with .. and not showing the whole text)
· Web client advanced filter did not handle advanced filter correctly where no value is required.
Changed:
· Associates are now part of a specialized associates module. The create module wizard now allows you to select the 'person' module type.
· You can now configure the maximum number of actors to be retrieved when querying for movies from Imdb.com. Click on the configure button next to the server drop down to change the value. By default all actors will be retrieved (old/current behavior).
· Fields can now be selected when exporting items (CSV/XML exports. Field selection is remembered for next time(s).
· Double-clicking a multiple references field now opens the select windows.
· Removed labels in quick view for images.
· Added additional filter operators for dates (today, days ago, days in the future, months ago and years ago.
Known Issues:
· Removed the settings for persons (default sort order and display options); these did not work and need to be re-implemented. Planned for next version.
November 16th, 2010· This new version delivers a major performance improvement.
November 6th, 2010· Many broken features in Table view have been fixed.
· An extremely slow Auto Numberer and Title Rewriter have been fixed.
· Create Multiple works again.
· Slow Web client/server have been fixed.
November 3rd, 2010· Minor bug fixes only
October 30th, 2010· This version does not deliver any new functionality. It is however a total makeover (although internally) of the product. Memory usage has been minimized as well as processor time required. This is the 2nd beta and should be tested by anyone willing to help out.
June 20th, 2010· This version includes minor bug fixes only.
June 16th, 2010· Contains important bug fixes and small improvements to the product.
May 10th, 2010Fixed:
· Track titles were missing for Discogs.com.
Changed:
· 2927679 Collapse All Behavior
· 2943392 Floating Filter Dialog
· 2943409 Filter - Does not Show working status
· 2944044 Amendment to the Sort Order (filter)
· 2948618 Add 'copy' option to quickview
· 2948686 Close Tool Select Wizard after choosing & better explanation
· The 'container managed' option is now also available when altering a module.
· 2955087 Suppress "There are no changes to save" dialog
· Backup & Restore is now also available when running in the beginner experience level.
· 2955092 Visual indication of Beginner/Expert mode
· Added the username to the title of the Data Crow window.
· 2943367 Filter to select Pictures "is empty"
· Added "Is Filled" option to the quick filter toolbar.
· Added HH:mm (hours and minutes) to the backup file name.
· 2989153 Comment Addition for Backup files. A comment can now be added to a backup file. The comment is shown when browsing for a backup file to restore.
February 17th, 2010Fixed:
· Bol.com was no longer working (item links on bol.com were changed).
· Altering a module made the file fields disappear (the property 'file-backed' was not saved correctly).
· The FreeDB server did not deliver helpful error message when the disc query failed.
· The error handling of the report creation process has been improved.
· Data Crow did not remember (after a restart) whether its main view was maximized.
· Table view duplicates tracks when saving a new item.
· The list disappears when altering a property from within one of the administration menu options.
· Forms for child modules cannot be designed (the menu item is not available).
Changed:
· The installer allows you to select the specific modules you would like to install.
February 6th, 2010· This release contains minor bug fixes.
January 7th, 2010· The 'new user experience' has been improved. Tooltips have been added to all menu and tool bar items and a new wizard has been added.
November 13th, 2009· For the most part a bugfix upon the 3.7 version but contains new online services as well.
October 19th, 2009· This version delivers a huge set of new module builder tools.
· Most importantly, it is now very easy to share your custom-made module (including its items) with other users.
· Furthermore, you can now use any other module as a template when creating a new one.
· There are many other new features such as file operations (move, delete, and locate), a new online service (ISBNdb.com), and ISBN parsing from PDF documents.
September 27th, 2009· A maintenance release. Small fixes for the online services and a small improvement to the module wizards.
September 21st, 2009· The Web module has been updated and added to the main package.
· Several other improvements have been made such as adding language and country fields to most modules.
· Several improvements have been made to the online search functionality, such as better ISBN recognition for book searches.
September 14th, 2009· The Web module has been updated and has been added to the main package.
· Several other improvements have been made, such as adding general language and country fields to most modules.
September 10th, 2009· A small maintenance release to fix the locked database message.
September 8th, 2009· This release contains many minor fixes and small improvements, but also something new: from now on, you can choose to be notified of new releases.
August 26th, 2009· This is a maintenance release.
· The IMDB search has been optimized, and the CSV import has been improved.
July 19th, 2009Fixed:
· File tree view sometimes showed an incorrect path structure.
· Building a new chart will no longer lock the GUI.
· Building the File System Tree will no longer lock the GUI.
· Deleted items were not removed from the file tree view.
· New items were not added to the file tree view.
· Software Import in combination with an online service sometimes failed (rare occurrence).
· The grouping pane sometimes failed to add an item (rare occurrence).
· Several mistakes in the Dutch translation.
Changed:
· The File Structure tree now shows the correct file system structure and indicates whether the file or directory actually exists.
· 'Locale Settings' has been renamed to 'Regional Settings'.
July 13th, 2009Fixed:
· Mass Update did not use the overwrite field settings correctly. Additionally values were cleared.
· Changed labels for fields caused the sorting dialog to stop working correctly; empty field shown in the field selection.
· Drive Manager File Synchronizer was not working correctly. The matching process has been improved.
Changed:
· Mass Update: A new option is available "Use original service settings". When enabled the original settings as stored in the item. Only items having service information set will be updated. This was, somewhat, the default behavior in the past which caused confusion. By default this option is "off".
· Code review: Synchronize (mass update) classes have been simplified.
· File Import: the dialog now shows the volume names as well as the drive letters.
· Drive Manager: changes have been made to improve the performance dramatically.
June 18th, 2009Fixed:
· File importer sometimes fails when removing words from the filename.
· The File Types dialog for the File Import dialog was too small and didn't have a title.
Changed:
· Book file import now reads the first page of a PDF and sets this as the front picture.
· The image importer now also supports SVG files. Note that for existing installations you will have to add the SVG extensions to the File Types filter of the import dialog.
· Added a cancel button to the quick filter bar.
June 15th, 2009· Improved mass update, customizable item form tabs and allows you to change fields using the module wizard.
March 4th, 2009· A couple of important fixes are contained in this patch.
· The errors after upgrading to Java 1.6.0 Update 12 have also been fixed.
February 7th, 2009· This patch fixes the online services for the book module.
· Changes have been made to the saving mechanism for new items, which should fix the NullPointerExceptions some people experienced (unconfirmed fix).
· The German translation has been updated.
January 26th, 2009· PDF reporting was fixed, as well as the module creation wizard.
· This release contains improvements for adding images to items and the music album importer.
January 9th, 2009· This release fixes the reporting functionality and contains fixes for other minor problems.
January 2nd, 2009· [New]
· French translation, with many thanks too Pierre-Yves DANTEC!
· [Fixed]
· NullpointerException when closing the user form.
· Help cannot be shown.
· Service information is not set.
· [Changed]
· Data Crow will now try to determine the installation directory itself. If this fails it will fall back on the DATACROW_HOME environment variable or on the -dir: parameter. The environment variable and -dir: parameter overrule this behavior (if supplied, these will be used instead). Many users had problems with specifying the environment variable and this changed is meant to take the pain away.
January 2nd, 2009· This version contains bugfixes for platform security issues. Data Crow did not detect whether the folder and file permissions were set correctly. This could result in loss of data, as information could not be written to the database. On startup, Data Crow will check these files for their permissions and report back to the user in case of problems.
December 20th, 2008· The code has been reviewed and many small improvements have been made. As a result of this, this version uses less memory and has once again an improved start up time.
· I have been working quite hard to get the code documented. The emphasis for this release is again.. quality! I was quite happy with the stability of the 3.4.3 version but not with the amount of fixes needed to get there.
· Please note that a new version of the web module is available (version 1.2). This module needs to be installed on top of Data Crow in order for the web module to be available.
· I would like to thank Klaus Lassleben for his German translation of the labels!
· [New]
· Multiple languages support. The language can be selected in the locale settings from the settings menu.
· New languages can now be created from within the resource editor. Fields and modules can now also be translated from within this form.
· German language has been added (created by Klaus Lassleben).
· Dutch language has been added.
· [Fixed]
· [2334235] Over due bug. Loan administration shows items with a due date for the next year as overdue.
· [2338017] Missing horizontal scroll bar. The quick view does not have a vertical scroll bar.
· [2392326]Locked out of Database after creating a backup.
· Nothing happens when selecting 'launch file' after adding a new file launcher field to a module (in this case the music album module).
· Music Album and Audio CD report (Black&White) did not generated successfully.
· Users created using the item wizard cannot log into Data Crow. The wizard will now start the item form itself.
· A check has been added to see whether Data Crow does have write permission on the database files.
· When the item form asks "there are unsaved changes" and you answer "no: on the question if you are sure you want to close the form it's closed anyway.
· Cannot translate module names + field names using the resource editor.
· Cannot translate settings.
· Removed most of the not used messages and labels.
· Hardcoded labels and messages.
· Descriptive setting was not remembered (field settings). Bug in the version check caused the settings to be converted on each startup.
· [Changed]
· The web server can now be started from the command line without starting the Data Crow application. The parameter to use is: -webserver. The server can be brought down gracefully using the CTR-C command (as displayed in the console).
· The display format for person names can now be set using the settings dialog. (Settings > General Settings > 'Default display format for the persons name').
· UTF8 support for resources (labels, messages, etc).
· [Components]
· Updated Jetty to the latest version (6.1.14)
· Updated FOP from Apache to version 0.95 (Libraries used for report generation).
· HSQL DB has been upgraded to version 1.8.0.10
November 9th, 2008· This release contains, for the most part, bugfixes and some minor changes.
November 2nd, 2008· This version of Data Crow improves the online search capabilities and the Data Crow framework as a whole.
· Bugs have been fixed and minor improvements made where needed.
September 28th, 2008· This release has an overview dialog for all loans.
· A due date has been added.
· The item form now shows, in a separate tab, the related items.
September 10th, 2008· A loan functionality fix.
August 27th, 2008· Improved overall performance.
· Startup time has been reduced dramatically, as well as the online search (for large databases).
· The upgrade process has been streamlined.
· Locations have been converted to container objects.
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