Beta Ver 6.5 (6.5.246 and above 99% complete. Stable release pending.)

• 6.5.304 : Issue Fix : Disable new document tool when not in folder view.
• 6.5.304 : New Feature : All folder listing are now handled by a background thread. .
• 6.5.294 : New Feature : New option. Site setting called 'disable_commit_log'.System option to disable commit log reason popup. .
• 6.5.294 : New Feature : New option. Site setting called 'allow_empty_commit_log'.System option to allow empty strings in the reason popup. .
• 6.5.277 : New Feature : New option. Site setting called 'use_win_file_templates'.System option to use Windows file templates for new documents .
• 6.5.276 : New Feature : Work in progress based on document modified rather than document opened.
• 6.5.275 : New Feature : New icons in document file list showing work in progress status.
• 6.5.272 : Issue Fix : Import connection profile fails. Very minor.
• 6.5.266 : New Feature : New option. Site setting called 'exclusive_open'. Allows only one user at a time to open a document.
• 6.5.266 : Issue Fix : Improved handling of svn error 'an unversioned file of the same name exists'. Very minor.
• 6.5.261 : Issue Fix : Checkout depth infinity on certain situations. Very minor.
• 6.5.258 : Issue Fix : Refactor conflict resolution.. Conflict recognition improved and automated.
• 6.5.251 : Issue Fix : Search by tags.. Incorrect search results for a tag search.
• 6.5.247 : New Feature : Now uses LibreOffice ( instead of OpenOffice ) for document conversions.
• 6.5.246 : Issue Fix : Search by tags.. Tag combos were not being populated correctly.
• 6.5.241 : New Feature : Plugins can be run from the command line allowing external programs and systems to call and interact with anything within RDMS.
• 6.5.236 : New Feature : Work in progress. Indication of when other people are working on a document.
• 6.5.235 : New Feature : Date metadata new option to have empty dates default to current date.
• 6.5.235 : Issue Fix : Open documents when working copy is removed. Minor.
• 6.5.192 : Formal test suite completed.. Passes all test cases under both XP and WIN7.
• 6.5 - New Feature : Auto-capture Email Account. Monitor a POP mail account and capture all emails. Useful for things like scan/fax to email etc.
• 6.5 - New Feature : Raw Subversion Commands. Subversion commands (status, info, update, commit and cleanup) can be run at the folder level from right-click contect menu in the folder tree.
• 6.5 - Issue Fix : Installation. 6.5 beta version not installing properly on a new, clean system. Did install over an existing system.
• 6.5 - New Feature : Commit All Changes. Main program, new toolbar tool at top to globally commit all local changed documents in a single operation.
• 6.5 - Issue Fix : Statusbar Tool. When 'closed' rdms hides as an icon in the notfication area. Behaviour of this tool has been re-vamped.
• 6.5 - New Feature : UTF-8. UTF-8 encoding support for full text indexing and file name paths. Supports all UTF-8 in documents. Supports only codepage 1252 (western europe) for file names and paths. Others to come in final release.
• 6.5 - New Feature : Auto Numbering. New documents created from templates can have automatically incremented numbers added to file names. See right-click context menu on document/file list.
• 6.5 - New Feature : Preview. Document preview pane has been added. See document contents without opening.
• 6.5 - New Feature : F1, F3 and F5 Keys. Start Help, Search and refresh lists respectively.
• 6.5 - New Feature : Open on Autocapture. Option to open/edit auto-captured documents. Set in configuration program, auto-capture section.
• 6.5 - New Feature : Hook Script Plugins. Use plugins as subverion repository hook scripts.
• 6.5 - New Feature : Plugin Workbench. Application to develop, manage and test plugins.See main program, system menu.
• 6.5 - New Feature : Tag Cloud. Any tags against any documents.
• 6.5 - New Feature : Plugins. Write your own enhancments and customisations. Additional and customised components for your system can be produce by us at a modest fee and delivered to you as plugins.

Latest Release Ver 6.4 (December 2010)

• 6.4.111 - Issue Fix : Quick search metadata contents sometimes fails to find document. Minor. Only upgrade if required.
• 6.4.110 - Issue Fix : Working with windows roaming profiles. Minor. Only upgrade if required.
• 6.4.100 - Issue Fix : Vista problems reading expanded strings from registry.
• 6.4.95 - Issue Fix : Failed to create COM object WScript.Shell: Class not registered.
• 6.4.94 - Issue Fix : License expiry removed.
• 6.4.91 - Issue Fix : Win XP connecting to registry.
• 6.4 - New Feature : Plugins. Write your own enhancments and customisations.
• 6.4 - Enhancement : Internationalisation and language translations based on gettext.
• 6.4 - Enhancement : GOCR included. Basic open source OCR program called GOCR now included.
• 6.4 - Enhancement : OCR added to scanner. Scans may be automatically passed through your OCR programs for automatic conversion to text.
• 6.4 - Enhancement : Auto-save added to scanner. Save the scan to a nominated folder with no user intervention. Combined with auto-capture makes bulk capture of scans into the DMS very easy with minimal clicks.
• 6.4 - Enhancement : Auto-capture. Any number of local folders can be configured for auto capture. Files saved in these folders are automatically transfered into the document store .
• 6.4 - Enhancement : Files saved directly into any briefcase folder now auto-captured and added to the document store.

History

• 6.3.140 - Enhancement : Outlook Integration. In adition to the existing MAPI and in-built SMTP client we have added a third email integration. Using the Configuration program you can now choose direct Outlook integration.
• 6.3 - New Feature : Copy/Cut/Paste. Used to move and replicate documents between folders and projects in addition to current drag and drop.
• 6.3 - New Feature : Toolbars. Toolbars have been added to all screens. These replicate all actions that can be done with contect right-click menus.
• 6.3 - New Feature : Tag Editor. Configuration program, Settings tab now contains a custom document tag editor.
• 6.3 - New Feature : Workflow. Petri Net engine added. All workflow is implemented strictly as petri nets.
• 6.3 - Enhancement : Workflow Jobs. Now 4 built-in workflows.
• 6.3 - Enhancement : Document templates now stored in a repository folder. Administrator can nominate any folder to be used as for templates. Template folder can be set as read-only by the administrator.
• 6.3 - Enhancement : Connection profile editing in the configuration program has been enhanced to include test tools to help with creating remote repository and database connections.

History

• 6.2.52 - Enhancement : Cosmetic/visual changes.
• 6.2.41 - Enhancement : Able to edit document tag names.
• 6.2 - New Feature : Workflow. The full workflow engine has been added. This lets us create jobs that can be made up of any number of tasks. Jobs are then applied to documents.
• 6.2 - New Feature : Workflow Jobs. This version is comes with 3 workflow jobs built in. These provide different way for you to send a document from the DMS to another person , have them work on it, return the updates to you and have the new versions incorporated back into the DMS.
• 6.2 - New Feature : Workflow View. A new view has been added to the Navigator. The Workflow view groups and presents all documents that you are required to work on now.
• 6.2 - New Feature : Scheduler. Allows any task to be scheduled to be run at any time. In this release the scheduler is used to 'drive' the workflow engine. Future releases will use the scheduler to drive features like automatic archiving or purging of old documents.
• 6.2 - New Feature : Project View. All functions that were previously under the Workspace/Projects tab have now been moved to a new view in the document store call Projects View.
• 6.2 - New Feature : Built-in Email Client. You now have the options of using a simple built-in SMTP email client for sending documents in additions to the current method of calling your own installed email client.
• 6.2 - Enhancement : All drag and drop of files into the system and within the system has been refactored.
• 6.2 - Enhancement : The Document Store tree in the Navigator has been enhanced to 'remember' the entire tree state when collapsed.

History

• 6.1.82 - Issue Fix : Document tag tooltips not being hidden in some circumstances.
• 6.1.80 - New Feature : Reset button on Scanner. Using the reset button you can clear all scanned pages and start a new scan job.
• 6.1.80 - Issue Fix : Scanning a multi-page document. Rotate button always rotates the last page of the document. Now the page being viewed is rotated.
• 6.1.80 - Issue Fix : Scanning rotate button does not always produce a rotation.
• 6.1 - New Feature : MS-Office/OpenOffice comparison programs. RocketDMS now uses existing MS-Office or OpenOffice document comparison features by default if they are installed. These can be over-ridden by 'plugging-in' your own or third-party comparison scripts or programs.
• 6.1 - New Feature : White label skinning and branding for distributors and resellers. On-sell RocketDMS under your own brand.
• 6.1 - New Feature : Audit trails. Logs all users and actions performed to either MySQL or Windows event logs.
• 6.1 - Miscellaneous enhancements to document store tree bahaviour.
• 6.1 - Issue Fix : Add documents to a tree branch that is not checked out fails.
• 6.1 - Issue Fix : Maximum 260 character path names on NTFS.
• 6.1 - Issue Fix : Acceptance of new SSL certificates when connecting to a new subversion server.
• 6.1 - Issue Fix : Check and warn about debug mode at program startup.
• 6.1 - Issue Fix : Default initial history log viewer position and size on dual monitors.
• 6.0.72 - New Feature : Import and export buttons added to toolbar.
• 6.0.72 - New Feature : Quick search added to toolbar.
• 6.0.72 - New Feature : User selectable folder icons for Folder View added to right-click context menu on folder tree.
• 6.0.72 - New Feature : Installer option to download help files and install locally.
• 6.0.72 - Issue Fix : Natural (human) sorting applied to file names.
• 6.0.55 - Issue Fix : Error message unable to write to %TEMP%.
• 6.0.51 - Issue Fix : Avira anti-virus false positive being reported on rocket.exe.
• 6.0.51 - Issue Fix : General error: 1 no such table: workspace.
• 6.0.51 - Issue Fix : Unable to load libeay32.dll.
• Issue Fix : Adding documents to non-checked out folders.
• Issue Fix : Relocation of user home folder in Windows. Windows environment variables %APPDATA% and %TEMP% not set to reflect the new folder location.
• Issue Fix : Subversion HTTPS server. SSL server certificates can now be accepted in the Configuration program.
• 6.0.28 - Resolves possible conflict with PHPRC environment variable.
• 6.0 - Introduces new licensing algorithm and prices. Unlimited time licenses.
• 6.0 - Added 5 favourites/shortcut buttons at the top of the document store tree. Any document path can be assigned to one of these buttons.
• 6.0 - Structured document tags for combos/selections. Selections (or pick lists) can now be presented as cascading heirarchical menus instead of just as a simple combo.
• 6.0 - Suggestions feature on entering text document tags. As you type you are now presented with a list of suggestions to choose from based upon all previous entries.
• 6.0 - Connection profiles configuration improved.
• 6.0 - Hints system added. Popup hints and help for new users. This can be disabled from the program help menu.
• 6.0 - Document version history upgraded to show more information.
• 5.2.99 - Minor fix on document revision history. Only affects systems using multiple connection profiles.
• 5.2 - Windows 7 compatibility testing completed.
• 5.2 - Add context menu option to document tree to allow bulk re-indexing of entire folders and collections in one operation.
• 5.2 - Document indexing has been refactored to give improved search times.
• 5.2 - Ability to configure document immutability. Documents that can not be changed or deleted by anyone.
• 5.2 - Integration of SVN hook scripts.
• 5.2 - Add file name extension column to document lists. Allows sorting by document types.
• 5.2 - Setup installer download size reduced by moving to on-line help.
• 5.2 - OCR integration.
• 5.2 - Synchronise licenses across multiple connection profiles.
• 5.2 - Search results. Popup selection to choose documents to be loaded.
• 5.2 - Multi-user mode enhancements.
• 5.1 - New document templates. Create any number of templates of any document type to appear in the 'New Document' context menu.
• 5.1 - Choose between GTK or native Windows file open/save dialogues.
• 5.1 - Multiple document store connection profiles.
• 5.1 - File comparison or diff utilites database driven. Can now have any number of different diff programs for different document filename extensions.
• 5.1 - Enhanced conflict resolution utility.
• 5.1 - Image files addded as a capture source to the scanner. Image files, along with scans can now be added to PDF books produced by the scanner application.
• 5.1 - 'Remember me' option added to the login dialogue.
• 5.1 - Edit selections/pick lists from within the selection dialogue (with appropriate permissions).
• 5.1 - New search. Get documents by ID number.
• 5.1 - Document tooltips display all metadata.
• 5.1 - Unique ID number for each document in the system. IMPORTANT: If upgrading from an earlier version for searches to work yuo MUST create document indexes. To do this click once on every folder in the document store tree. This will (re)index all of the documents in that folder.
• 5.1 - Print sheets of labels for physical containers and items.
• 5.1 - Meta data harvesting from MS office (word , excel) documents.
• 5.1 - Instant Search feature to taskbar. Very quick way to get to documents from the taskbar.
• 5.0.78 - Enhancements to physical containers and items.
• 5.0.78 - Enable user to select a briefcase location.
• 5.0.78 - All meta-data displayed in tooltip while hovering over document.
• 5.0.78 - Scanner - Add button to select scan source. Can use any TWAIN image source inclusing cameras.
• 5.0.23 - Adds command line add document utility.
• 5.0.19 - Global date display format configurable.
• 5.0 - GUI redesigned.
• 5.0 - Add search by filename extension.
• 5.0 - Add option to export any document as PDF. Conversion done on-the-fly by OpenOffice.
• 5.0 - Add option to email documents as PDF. Document to PDF conversion done on-the-fly by OpenOffice. Rigth click context options on any file type that OpenOffice supports. Email as PDF or Export as PDF. The PDF conversion is done on the fly, email client pops up ready to go with the docs as PDFs already attached.
• 5.0 - Add hooks to OpenOffice.
• 5.0 - Add alternative views. View entire document store arranged by METADATA TAGS, by PATH, by SAVE SEARCHES and miscellanous other views.
• 5.0 - Combine Workspace, Navigator and scanner into tabs under core program. Search has been embedded into the Navigator.
• 5.0 - User permissions system giving creating of users, user groups and rights giving full control over who can use any features of the system.
• 5.0 - Add PDF system reports. Full document listings of repository contents etc. New reports being added.
• 5.0 - Logview. Diff document revisions with your own nominated third-party diff program. See Config, extras tab.
• 5.0 - Change licensing from specific username to concurrent usernames.