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SimplyPats Revision History
Version 6.0.7 October 9th 2012
Additions
1) Added support for importing CSV data from the new First Stop Safety Memory PAT tester.
2) When printing either an original PAT testing certificate or the version 2 PAT Certificate, you are now prompted if you would like to automatically increment the certificate number. This will occur if you print a single certificate, or you print a certificate as part of an automatic print sequence of pat testing reports.
3) Added a new Visual Only Passes and Fails Report that prints only those tests which are visual only.
4) Added a new Notes report that prints out only those tests that have Notes (or recommendations) attached to them.
5) Added a new Certificate of Pat Testing report based on the V2 Certificate, however this is a more plain version without any extra graphics.
6) Added a new V2 Passes and Fails report which also shows any Microwave Leakage emission tests in a line below the normal test results where applicable.
7) Added a new screen to Find appliances by description or appliance id in any of your data files. The search can be further refined by specifying dates to search between.
8) Added a font size drop down on the System Settings screen to allow changing the font size of the main screen, allowing the information to be read more easily on higher resolution monitors.
9) When creating an invoice you are prompted to validate your data first to check if their are any errors with charges etc. Having validated the data, the invoice screen wasn't shown and was only shown if you had chosen not to validate the data. This has now been fixed to always show the invoice screen.
10) Added Limits of 5.00 mA to the Leakage, Sub Leakage and Touch Leakage drop downs of the Manual Entry Screen to comply with AS/NZS 3760-2010
11) Added a button on the Licencing screen to automatically send an email to SimplyPats support requesting an extra licence for the software.
12) Added Class, Fuse Rating, Appliance Serial Number, Engineer, Fail Reason and Notes columns to the Main SimplyPats grid allowing you to sort or edit these columns of data.
13) Added a list of the columns of data in the System Settings screen, allowing you to show or hide your desired columns on the Main SimplyPats grid.
14) Added support for the Australian / NewZealand Version of the Metrel DeltaPat MI3309
15) Increased the maximum number of characters for the extra certificate text on your certificates
from 160 characters to 250 characters.16) Added a New V2 Certificate Report including 3 addresses: Your Address, Customer Address and Site Address.
17) Added a New V2 Certificate Report which is in portrait.
18) Added a new option when downloading to use a notes field on your pat tester for both the fuse rating of an appliance and any associated notes. SimplyPats will pick up a valid 2 character fuse rating e.g. 13 at the start of the notes field, the remaining text will be put in the notes field in SimplyPats.
19) Added a new Folder Cover Report in the same format as the newer V2 Reports. This folder cover contains the full address of the company tested rather than just the company name. In addition like all V2 reports, the headers present can be set match your desired colour scheme.
20) Increase the number of characters for the Pat Certificate Number from 5 to 6.
21) Added support for the UK SigmaPat MI3310 new firmware revision 1.35
22) Amended the sort order on the Appliance Id column of the Print Pat Labels screen so that clicking on the column header of Appliance Id sorts the column numerically.
Bugs
1) When uploading data to the Transmille 6080 from SimplyPats, a check was made to ensure no more than 600 tests were uploaded. This has now been changed to no more than 500 tests as this is the limit of tests that can be uploaded.2) Some of the newer PAT testing reports had not been added to the drop down when configuring a print sequence. This list of reports is now up to date.
3) Increased the maximum length of the Site and Location fields in the Bulk replace screen from 30 characters to 100 characters.
4) Fixed some spelling mistakes that appeared in messages on the download PAT tester screen.
5) Modified the Manual Entry screen to fix a bug where the correct number of appliances wasnt being calculated correctly. This was only likely to affect adding a manual entry test do a data file produced by a Metrohm MPAT60, Metrel Gamma or DeltaPat or possibly data from older SimplyPats versions.
6) Amended the V2 Certificate of Pat Testing to remove the words "Certificate Valid Until" before the date as the words "Valid Until" already appear above that line.
7) When downloading an appliance where 3 repairs had been carried out on an appliance only the first 2 were being shown. This bug was inadvertently introduced in 6.0.5. and has now been fixed.
8) Right mouse clicking on the Test Results area of the main screen prior to any file being loaded caused SimplyPats to crash. This has now been fixed.
9) On printing a sequence of reports if a fails report was selected as the first report to be printed, and there were no failed items, SimplyPats reported an Error 53 and a copy of the Appliance Register was printed in error. This has now been fixed.
10) Added code to ensure Simplypats always exit's completely allowing an immediate restart.
11) When importing a csv file from the Megger 400 series PAT testers, the polarity test was set to N, O, R rather than P, S, F. This bug was introduced in 6.0.6 after the latest version of the Megger firmware was catered for.
Version 6.0.6 June 26th 2012
Additions
1) Added support for the download of Australian and New Zealand firmware version of the Metrel SigmaPat MI3310
2) Added special functions to modify SimplyPats for Facilities management Companies, PAT Franchise Companies and larger PAT testing Companies.
3) Added new option in Systems Settings to allow you to change the word used in the appliance description field on the manual entry screen to auto set the Polarity Test to pass. E.g. if you type in LEAD, when adding an appliance description EXTENSION LEAD and pressing auto, the polarity test will be set to a pass.
4) Amended the Version 2 Current Appliance and Version 2 One Appliance Per Page code to allow 2 new custom reports for these which include the Appliance Photo.
5) Added the Microwave Limit of 5 mW/ cm2 to both of the Microwave Reports.
6) Added a group By Box on the Review Customers screen allowing you to group the list by customer or address.
7) Amended the Tab order on the Manual Entry screen so that the cursor follows from Appliance Id sequentially through all the fields when using the tab key. The cursor now doesnt start in the Appliance Description field.
8) Added an additional 8 Repair Codes for Invoicing. In addition to codes A to Z there are now codes 1 to 9.
9) Increased the maximum number of Microsoft Outlook(tm) Calendar events that could be shown in the SimplyPats Outlook screen from 50 to 500. This would cure a possible bug where you searched a large time period for outlook events and the number found exceeded 50.
10) Added the ability to upload SimplyPats 6 data back to the Metrel BetaPat Plus MI3304 and OmegaPat Plus MI3305.
11) Added the ability to upload SimplyPats 6 data back to the Metrel SigmaPat MI3310.
12) Added the ability to upload SimplyPats 6 data back to the Megger 410, Megger 420 and Megger 450.
13) Added Cancel changes button to the List Sites and List Locations Screen.
14) Added the ability to enter full site addresses in the List Sites Screen. These full addresses can be used with the V2 Multi Site Passes and Fails Report
15) Added a new Report the V2 Multi Site Passes and Fails Report. In addition to showing full addresses for each site (where entered), ALL the tests done on a particular appliance are shown in a list underneath the appliance id. This includes Microwave leakage information if applicable as well as Earth Continuity, Insulation, Leakage, Touch Leakage, Sub Leakage, Load, Clamp, Flash, and RCD. Only those tests conducted are listed.
16) Added support for new revision of Megger PAT420 firmware version 2.40 where extra RCD data and Tested By data was added to the CSV export.
Bugs
1) When importing a CSV file from the Megger PAT420 the Class of the appliance wasn't being correctly handled and so didn't display correctly on the main screen. This has now been fixed.
2) The ability to compress the results window to show just those tests done hiding the skipped tests introduced in 6.0.5. cause function to change the status of a passed test to a fail to not work correctly. This has now been fixed.
3) On dowloading the Europa or Supernova if a Earth Continuity limit of .09 or .9 or 9 had been set then SimplyPats stopped with an error Invalid use of Null. This has now been fixed.
4) When closing the SimplyPats Outlook screen on computers where Microsoft Outlook 2000 was installed, an error was generated. This only appeared to happen with Outlook 2000. This bug has now been fixed.
5) If you had a SimplyPats file open with only 1 test in it and used the Find Duplicates function from the Records Menu, SimplyPats would crash. Obviously there would be no duplicate appliances in a file with only one appliance.
6) When downloading the Robin SmartPat 5500 SimplyPats either hung on the the last test and didnt close the download screen. This has now been fixed.
7) When downloading the Primetest 300 / 350 at a high Baud Rate on on a slow PC, either the data was corrupt or missed records. The communications buffer has been increased to deal with older PC's or where the PC was performing other tasks while SimplyPats was downloading.
8) On the Invoice screen, after ticking to Print a Receipt and closing the Invoice screen. Reopening the Invoice screen and creating an invoice would show the receipt even though the Print receipt tick box was blank. Restarting SimplyPats would hvae cleared this problem, however this bug has now been fixed.
9) When using the Find Duplicate appliance id's option from the Records Menu, duplicate appliances with blank Appliance Id's wern't being found.
10) A new tick box in the System Settings screen enables the use of Drag and drop, when dragging appliances from the SimplyPats main screen to another application. This is to prevent the No Entry icon appearing on the Main Screen if you are not using the Drag and Drop facility.
11) When maintaining Repair Prices, setting a maximum value of a repair to 99 without selecting either Metres, Minutes or Amps as the type of repair, trying to close the screen caused an error.
12) Reprinting a receipt caused an error Input Past End Of File which had now been fixed. Reprinting an Invoice which was set to be a receipt now reprints it as a receipt.
Version 6.0.5 November 14th 2011
Additions
1) Removed the Validation messages of charge and repair codes as they were being entered on the main screen and transferred this validation to the Validate data option under the tools menu.
2) When validating data a surplus message appeared after any errors were Found. This has now been removed.
3) Added support for downloading the Metrel SigmaPat MI3310
4) Added support for downloading the Seaward PAT1000
5) Added support for downloading the Seaward PAT2000
6) Moved support for downloading the Seaward Primetest 300, Seaward Primetest 350, Seaward 1000S, Seaward 1000x, Seaward IT1000 and Metrohm MPAT60 from the separate download utility into the main SimplyPats program.
7) Added the ability to store the Notes or Comment lines from all of the PAT testers into a nominated field within SimplyPats. You can now select to store the notes field from the PAT into Appliance Serial Number, Retest Period, Notes, User/Engineer, Fuse Rating, Site, Location, Appliance Description, or Charge and Repair codes.
8) Rewritten the Download PAT screen allowing you to easily swap between downloading different PAT testers.
9) Added functionality on the download screen to allow you to specifically set a com port for those testers which try and detect the com port and baud rate automatically. This may useful when downloading to PCs which have a large number of odd com ports.
10) Added a refresh button on the download screen to re detect any com ports. This is useful where you may have forgotten to plug in your USB serial converter after SimplyPats is already running.
11) Added a button to automatically start the Windows Device Manager screen. This may help when diagnosing which com ports are installed on your PC and to check that the drivers have been installed for any USB to serial converters.
12) Added a new function that automatically backs up the raw data download file of your PAT tester. These files are date ad time stamped and kept safe in a new rawdata folder within SimplyPats, ensuring you can always recover the original data as it was first downloaded from your PAT tester.
13) Added detection of the RCD tests produced by the Metrel BetaPat MI3304 and OmegaPat Plus MI3305 these are now stored within SimplyPats.
14) Detection of the RCD tests on the New Zealand and Australian versions of the Metrel BetaPat MI3304 and OmegaPat Plus MI3305 includes recording the phase results in the notes field in SimplyPats.
15) Added specific help for downloading each PAT tester on the settings screen for each PAT tester.
16) Rewritten the Upload Screens for the Megger PAT4, Seaward Europa Plus and Supernova Plus and Transmille PAT Testers. The upload screen now has the same look and feel as the new download PAT Settings Screen.
17) Added specific help for uploading each PAT tester on the settings screen for each PAT tester.
18) Added a new option on the Bulk Replace screen (where you have selected a range of tests) to remove any leading zeroes from your Appliance Id's. This may be useful if you have a barcode scanner set to automatically input leading zeroes, or you have data from a PAT test machine that automatically inputs leading zeroes.
19) Added options to Print the information on the Customer Details Screen and Invoicee Details Screen.
20) Added support for downloading the Metrel DeltaPat MI3309
21) Added a new keyboard shortcut (CTRL+F5) from the Main SimplyPats screen to bring up the Manual Entry Screen.
22) Added Leakage test results to the V2 Passes, Fails and Passes And Fails Report.
23) When selecting a specific site and location to be printed from the Print Screen a surplus message appeared telling you to select a site or location before you had a chance to do so. This message has been removed.
24) Added a tick box on the Invoice Screen and Reprint Invoice screen to allow printing of a receipt for an invoice.
25) Added Fail Reason and Notes fields to the Manual Entry Screen.
26) When selecting records, if you have grouping on e.g. all appliances grouped by location. When right clicking on an appliance in a group on the main grid and choosing Select All records from the drop down menu, you will be asked if you just want to highlight just the records of the current group rather then all of your records.
27) Add a function to the Invoicing within SimplyPats so that you can create and invoice based on highlighted records only.
28) Add support for Megger PAT420 Firmware Revision. Importing CSV files from the Megger PAT420 stopped working after Megger revised their firmware to 2.10 from 2.00. SimplyPats can now deal with data from either firmware from this PAT Tester.
29) Amended the RCD Manual Entry screen to allow the setting of the test current. This will now allow Australian and New Zealand users to enter Type I rcd's e.g. less than 40 mS at 10 mA.
30) Added a New printed RCD Report that shows the test results at 0 and 180 degrees phase for newer PAT testers (Metrel SigmaPat Plus, BetaPat and OmegaPat Plus) that download that information. This is especially for the New Zealand and Australian regulations.
31) Amended the Hide Skips option on the Systems Settings screen so that only the test results with values are shown in the Test Results area of SimplyPats (Top Right Window of Main Screen) No skipped tests, or blank lines are now shown.
32) Amended the inspHire rental software CSV import routine to improve handling of data exported from inspHire containing missing test dates and quotation marks within appliance descriptions.
33) Added support for downloading the Kewtech KT77 Pat Tester.
34) Removed surplus message appearing if Spell Check was cancelled mid way through Spell Checking.
35) Added a new keyboard shortcut (CTRL+F6) from the Main SimplyPats screen to Edit a Manual Entry Test.
36) Added a button to automatically create a PDF and Email to your customer from the Non Appliance Print Preview Screens. E.g. When Creating an Invoice.
37) Removed the Add Visual Tests options from the Records menu as these functions have been superseded by the Manual Entry Screen.
38) Added a menu option on the Records menu to edit a Manual Entry test.
39) Rewritten the Email SimplyPats data file button on the Main Screen so that it is easier to send the complete data file to a recipient. You are now only prompted to Email Selected records to a recipient if you have 2 or more records highlighted.
Bugs1) When using the System Settings screen on the Manual Version of SimplyPats, if you had no com ports available on your PC, a message appeared saying this and stopped you making any changes to the settings. This has now been fixed for the manual version.
2) When downloading the OmegaPat Plus MI3305 where flash tests have been done and recorded a value of <0.2 SimplyPats stopped with an error. This has now been fixed.
3) When downloading the Megger PAT4 if you had set your own group code (test code) and chosen not to undertake a Visual Test, SimplyPats did not record the Visual Test as being skipped but set it as a failed visual test.
4) When downloading the Transmille 6080 or Transmille 6080 Plus, the earth Continuity output was being incorrectly read, stating a 25A output when 100mA test was done. This has now been fixed.
5) Amended the Overdue Appliance Screen and report so that failed items are not included.
6) Amended the 1 appliance per page report and detailed passes and fails report (both old and new versions) to correctly show clamp test results.
7) If you had replaced Location or Site abbreviations and then immediately gone to the List Sites screen, the unique Sites displayed had not been updated and so saving the sites data as a separate file did not work. This has now been fixed.
8) Version 2 Reports Hide Cut Marks Around Logo tick box on the Margins and Colours tab of the Print Settings Screen did not work. This has now been fixed. The same Version 2 Reports Hide Cut Marks Around Logo tick box on the Logo and Fonts tab has been removed.
9) When hiding Cut Marks Around Logo option was ticked it did not remove the cut marks around the Version 2 Certificate of PAT testing. This has now been fixed.
10) Fixed a bug when double clicking a row header on a Manual Entry Test not selecting the correct testing information.
11) On the Manual Entry screen, when adding a new user to your last test, on restarting the Manual Entry screen that user wasn't available.
12) On the review Customers screen, when finding Retests due Between 2 dates the results were showing the first retest due in that customer file, not just those customers whose retests dates fell in that period.
13) When printing a list of Sites using the from the List Sites screen, the report referred to locations not sites.
14) Everywhere in SimplyPats where you could load an image, e.g. company logo, signature image for reports, or add photo to an appliance, you were given the option of looking for gif type images. However if you selected files of type gif, no gif images would be listed even though they were present. This has now been fixed.
Version 6.0.4 May 4th 2011
Additions
1) Added support for loading CSV data produced by the Megger PAT420 Pat Tester. Note, this hasn’t been checked with the data produced by the PAT410 or PAT450 as yet.
2) Added the ability to set the height of your signature image which is shown on the new style reports. The signature image shown on the Certificates is unchanged.
3) Added another field in the print Setup screen to allow you to print a second line of free text at the top of your invoice. This could be used to print a promotional offer for example.
4) Increased the maximum length of a Site or Location abbreviation from 5 to 7 characters.
5) Added the ability to change the fore colour on the version 2 banners as well as the back colour. You can also set the colours of the other shaded areas on the version 2 report.
6) Added a Message Box confirming a successful backup after using the Backup Your Data feature from the Settings Menu.
7) Added a new option on the Edit Print Sequence screen to allow the single PDF to be created in the same folder as your current data file.
8) Amended the Edit Print Sequence screen so that you can set the Number of Print copies to zero and also select to not print a PDF. When you print your sequence this report will be excluded.
9) Amended the length of the Email text box on the Customer Details and Invoicee Details screens from 35 to 50 characters. Also removed the validation of the email field as some users found this annoying.
10) Added a Maximum Insulation Value box on the System Settings screen for manually entered tests. If the insulation value is greater than this max Value, then a greater than sign will appear on the test results on the main screen and when printed.
11) Added a tick box on the Print Settings screen to hide or show the 'crop marks' around the company logo on the version 2 reports.
Bugs
1) The sub leakage test on the Europa Plus and Supernova Plus testers was being calculated incorrectly, however in the event of a fail SimplyPats would have notified you of data inconsistency and prompted you to check your data.
2) When printing a folder cover where your customer had no contact title entered (e.g. Mr, Mrs Miss etc) No contact name was shown on the folder cover. Now just Forename and Surname are shown.
3) If non SimplyPats data file with the extension .pat was copied in your data folder, (or a totally unreadable SimplyPats file) the Customer Quick Select screen crashed as it tried to show the list. You are now asked to remove the offending file from the data folder.
4) Amended spelling mistake of Simplyfied to Simplified in the Simplified Passes and Fails report. Also fixed an error in the same report where depending on the size of appliances in the first location, no appliances were printed on the first page of the report.
5) When saving a PDF of a Pat Test Report, if your customer name contained a colon (:) then a runtime error 20477 Invalid File Name appeared. This error is now fixed, the colon is now being removed from the PDF Filename.
6) When Printing the New V2 Microwave Report where there were than 1 page of Microwaves, SimplyPats raised an error 2014 and stopped. This bug has now been fixed.
7) When Printing the New V2 Passes and Fails Pat Testing Report the appliances in a single location were not always kept together under that location, instead the same location was repeated. This problem has now been fixed.
8) Fixed the issue of Clamp tests not being shown on reports. As many of the default reports do not have space for Clamp Data, you may need to contact us for custom reports to display the Clamp results.
9) If you had ticked the Use Pat File Name on Export Save option on the System Settings screen, the create a single merged PDF of all your PAT reports failed. This has now been fixed.
10) Fixed a typo on the email generated when creating a single PDF of all your pat testing reports. Changed Your Sincerely to Yours Sincerely.
11) The menu option that appeared when you right click in the test results area to Edit A Manual entry test had disappeared. This menu option has been reinstated.
12) On the create Print Sequence screen, if the same report was entered more than once, an error was generated when printing the sequence. SimplyPats now checks that each report is only listed once.
13) Clicking on the Clear Button of the Test Price field on either the Bulk replace or Bulk Replace Selection screens caused SimplyPats to stop working. This has now been fixed on both screens.
Version 6.0.3 February 15th 2011
Additions
1) Added a complete suite of 12 New style Pat Testing Reports including user definable coloured headings.
2) Added an option in the Edit Print Sequence Screen to automatically create A Single PDF containing all your selected PAT Testing Reports. This can also automatically attached to an email to your customer.
3) Added a new screen to show all the overdue appliances in the current file and by how many days they are overdue. An option allows you to show appliances overdue by x number of days or by supplying a negative number, those appliances due for test in x days.
4) Added a New Report to allow you to print Portable Appliance Testing Guidance Notes to your customer or end user. You can edit the text of the report using Microsoft Word (tm) You may use it to contain notes on recommended re test frequencies, risk assessment or contractual terms for example.
5) Added a new feature in the Print Setup screen to add a watermark image to your PAT Testing Reports. E.g. Example Report.
6) The Site and Location Abbreviations screen can now be used to maintain a list of abbreviations and full words to be used both on the Locations and Sites after downloading from your PAT tester.
7) The Replace Site and Location abbreviations function now works in the same way as the Appliance Description Abbreviations e.g. multiple abbreviations within the same location description (or site description) can be replaced. e.g. OP TH 23 would be converted into OPERATING THEATRE 23
8) Added an NA (Not Applicable) option to the fuse rating selection on the Manual Entry Screen.
9) Added a new option in the Print Settings screen to allow the One Appliance Per Page and Current Appliance reports to be printed in Red ink if they are a failed test.
10) Calculated the Number of Visual Only tests performed in your current file and displayed the total on the Summary of Tests Screen. Also updated this screen to include how many RCD and Microwave Failed tests were found in the current file.
11) Increased the maximum number of customer files that can be listed by the Review Customers, Quick Select customers and Retest Calendar screens from 3000 to 5000.
12) Added an Ignore button on the Customer Quick Select screen and Review Customers screen to create a list of customers to be hidden on those screens. These ignored customers can also be shown / hidden on the Re tests Calendar screen. Ignored customers can be taken off the ignore list by selecting them and clicking the ignore button a second time. The purpose of this is remove customers or their data without actually deleting the Simplypats data file.
13) Amended the Metrel GammaPat MI 3311 download routine to cater for later revisions of the Metrel GammaPat Firmware. Sometime after Firmware Version 1.27 Metrel have added the ability for the Gamma Pat to enter an Appliance description in addition to the Appliance Id. SimplyPats will now download and make use of this Appliance Description if it is present.
14) Amended the Megger PAT4 Download to put the contents of the Serial Number Field in the PAT4 into the Serial Number Field of SimplyPats. This will only happen when you choose not to use the Serial Number field on the PAT4 for entering Charge and Repair codes.
15) Amended the Megger PAT4 download to correctly put the Fuse Rating from the PAT into the Fuse rating field in SimplyPats.
16) Increased the Appliance Serial Number field from 20 characters to 25 characters.
17) Added a third option on the print Labels screen so that the Test Date and Retest Date are NOT printed when you print PAT Testing Labels. This option may be useful for those users who wish to write in the test date and retest date whilst on site testing rather than having the dates printed in advance.
18) Re-Ordered the list of Import Raw Data file options in the File Open dialogue so that the more popular Raw data files are at the top of the list.
19) On Printing Pat Testing Labels, a new tick box allows you not to print any Appliance Id's. This allows you to print Labels with just your company name and engineer should you want to complete the rest by hand.
20) Added the Email Address to the output of the create Mail Merge file from the Customer Quick Select Screen.
21) Amended the maximum size that you can set your company logo height to, from 30mm to 40mm.
22) Added the ability to bulk change the Test Time of an appliance under the Bulk Replace Selection screen.
Bugs
1) Amended Version 6 freely available custom certificate of PAT Testing by removing the dots from the signature line.
2) On the Summary Of Repairs report if there were no repairs the Customer Name field at the top of the report would contain a weird date e.g. 30-Dec-1899. This has now been fixed to show the Customer Name even when there are no repairs. The report also states No Repairs Required.
3) When you clicked on the Today button on the Retests Calendar screen, Tomorrow was highlighted in error. The today button now highlights today.
4) Trying to Bulk Change the Fuse Rating (on its own) on either a selection of tests or all tests stated that there was nothing to do. This has now been fixed.
5) Trying to Bulk Change the Class of an Appliance (on its own) on either a selection of tests or all tests stated that there was nothing to do. This has now been fixed.
6) On Import and Update, if the file that was being imported to update your master Pat testing file contained duplicate appliance id's (perhaps where an appliance has been tested and retested.) then some blank tests were created in error. The import and update screen now checks that the file you are importing doesn't contain any blank or duplicate appliance id's, prompting you to fix them first, before going ahead with the import.
7) On some the Martindale MicroPat Plus Testers it is possible to set the earth Continuity Limit to 1 Ohm. If this was done SimplyPats would not pick up the Earth continuity Results. (SimplyPats was not expecting such a high value for an Earth continuity Limit, as the Limit is usually set in the region of 0.2 Ohms.) Howver this has now been fixed. We would suggest that care should be taken to ensure the correct limits as recommended by the IET Code Of Practice are set on the PAT tester.
8) On some users PC's where they had a custom colour scheme, the main grid group by box may have been set to an odd colour. The group by box is now forced to have a white background colour.
9) On the Original Certificate of PAT testing, if you had chosen to print just the Month and Year for the retest date, if the month was a long month (number of characters not days) e.g. October, then the Restest Date was being wrapped onto a new line. If you also had an electronic signature loaded the wrapped date was only partially displayed.
10) A check has been put in to ensure that the settings file for the main screen is not corrupt. This settings file stores te users preference as to the position and size of the main screen when simplyPats starts.
11) If you were using Microsoft Outlook Express (tm) as your email client. The button to automatically create a PDF and Email it on the Print Results screen did not attach the PDF correctly. This has now been fixed.
12) The interpretation of Flash Test results on the Martindale MicroPat Plus Pat tester was incorrect, always failing the appliance with a very high reading 300 mA plus. This bug has now been fixed.
13) If you had set a folder when exporting PDF's in an automatic Print Sequence that no longer exists, e.g. it has been deleted or was a missing removeable drive, and error was created. This error is now trapped and a message given to change the path or replace the folder or drive.
14) No automatic backup of the download file was made after downloading the Megger PAT4 when using the Auto Create Backup On Download feature on the System Settings Screen. This has nwo been fixed.
15) On the SimplyPats Tests By Engineer Utility Version 2.0, the data path was permanently set to c:\program files\simplypats 6\data This has now been fixed so that it picks up the same data path as set by your main SimplyPats program.
Version 6.0.2 (September 14th 2010)
Additions
1) If you have Office 2010 installed and you try and create a word document using SimplyPats, if you try and use the Example Body document which is in Word 97 format, an error was produced. This is caused by the Word Trust Center blocking of older Word Format documents. An error trap has now been put in explaining the error. You can solve the problem by relaxing the Word Trust Center settings for older Microsoft Word files, or by creating your own body document in the same version of Microsoft Office that you are using.
2) Added an option on the Quick Select Customer screen to create a Mail Merge Data file. If you have a Word Processing program such as Microsoft Word (tm) you can use the file created from SimplyPats to mail merge a document to your customers.
3) On the import and update data screen, if you chose to update the test results, the testcode used by your PAT Tester wasn't being copied in. (where applicable as not all PAT testers reveal any testcodes). The test code is now copied over.
4) Increased the number of characters description available in the Maintain Extra Charges screen so that longer descriptions can be enetered for invoicing.
5) Added suport for downloading the Metrel GammaPat MI3311
6) Added an option to show a graph of the changes in Insulation Resistance, Continuity and Leakage test results over time. This may be useful in showing the possible degradation of insulation of an appliance. This option will only work where you have used unique appliance id's.
7) Added an Not Appicable option (NA) under the fuses drop down. This option may be useful where you are testing appliances without a domestic 13amp plug. The NA option has also been added to the drop down controls on Bulk Selection screens as well.
8) Added a new tick box option in the Print Setup screen (Passes and Fails TAB) to allow the showing of exact test results for Leakage, Sub Leakage, Touch Leakage, Flash and Clamp tests. Previously if a test result was less than 0.1 then SimplyPats showed and printed <0.1 with the less than sign. You can now override this to show the exact value e.g. 0.02
9) Added a new option in the settings for the Megger PAT4/DV3 or PAT4/DV to allow the use of Room Id's in the Megger PAT4 for locations in SimplyPats.
10) On the Manual Entry screen, if you enter a test time of 00:00 you will be prompted if you want all the subsequent tests you add to have a time of 00:00 set.
11) Amended the maximum number of sites and locations in a single file from 1000 to 2000.
Bugs
1) On Selecting the Kewtech KT74 or Kewtech KT75 from the System Settings screen, the com port selection was not always remembered. This is now fixed. Also when downloading the Kewtech KT74 or Kewtech KT75 the download screen showed an animation but no confirmation of the amount of data being read.
2) If you had a custom report designed for the Summary Of Repairs screen and this was included in your automatic print sequence, the custom report was not printed, only the default one. This is now fixed.
3) Amended the internet check for when a newer version of SimplyPats is available so that it doesnt remind everyone one the first day of a new month but rather 90 days after what ever day SimplyPats last checked for an update.
4) Put additional checks in the program to check whether your company logo image or signature file image are available. If these images were stored on a Server and the folder selected was what is known as a UNC path e.g. \\my server\shared docs\ as opposed to a logical drive z:\shared docs SimplyPats recorded an error. As a tip, if you install SimplyPats on a laptop and want to use it away from your office, copy any company logo image or signature image to the laptop's hard drive.
5) After creating new Invoices the invoice number was being correctly incremented however not being saved in the program settings. When restarting SimplyPats the invoice number reverted to the original number. This has now been fixed.
6) The File Open button on the Retests Calendar, Customer Extra Information screen, didnt work. This has now been fixed.
Version 6.0.1 (June 1st 2010)
Additions
1) Amended the Licence screen in SimplyPats so that the Licence button takes you to the SimplyPats 6 Licence page with the 34 character Licence Number pre filled in the web page.
2) Added 72 months retest period to the bulk replace screen. This retest period had already been added to the bulk replace of a selection of tests screen.
3) Added a section of help in the Downloading Your Pat help page for the Robin 5500. There is now separate help for the Robin 5000 and the Robin 5500
4) Added to the Summary of tests screen an item showing the average number of minutes each test has taken in the current file. This maybe useful if you are employing an engineer to carry out tests for you and want to ensure they are not rushing the visual and plug top checks.
5) Added the ability to show a unique certificate number (with a prefix) on the certificates. This is so they can be uniquely numbered and traceable like an invoice.
6) Redesigned the Print Setup screen to group the various options into TABs. This should make it easier to find various options relating to the way things are printed.
7) Added the ability to add a prefix to the Appliance Ids. This can be done by highlighting a range of tests and then using the Bulk Replace Selection screen from the Tools Menu.
8) Added Find Next and Find Previous buttons on the Edit Manual Entry screen. This should speed up the process of editing a whole range of manual entered tests, e.g. when re testing a customer or your own site.
9) Re organised the Manual Entry screen making it more landscape, this is to assist users who are using Netbooks where the maximum resolution is 1024 by 700 and the bottom of the Manual Entry screen could not be seen.
10) Added support for Automatic Emailing from SimplyPats with Windows Live Mail and Mozilla Thunderbird.
11) Amended the Tests By Engineer utility to work with Windows Version 7 and SimplyPats Version 6. The free Tests by Engineer will print a report of total number of tests by engineer for a given period. You can now also print a report of total number of tests done each month in a given period.
12) Added a New Screen to Print PAT Testing labels on to existing label stock. This feature currently works with blank PAT Labels from AOK Lables and also those used with the Label Station Pro printer. This feature also allows you to create and print Appliance Id labels prior to testing and then create a SimplyPats data file. This latter feature maybe useful for those using the Manual Entry screen to enter data.
13) Rewritten the Help pages on downloading your Kewtech KT74 or Kewtech 75 to include the screen shots of the download process.
14) Added a new option to allow the importing of appliance data from the inspHire Specialist Hire and Rental Management Software.
15) Added 2 new options in the Manual entry screen for calculating the next appliance id. These are specific to calculating the next Appliance Id where alpha numeric appliance id's are being used. E.g AP001, AP002 etc. SimplyPats now examines any alpha numeric appliance ids to try and calculate and format the next number.
16) For a Manually Entered appliance, you can now double click the Appliance in the Main SimplyPats screen to edit that appliance, rather than using the right mouse click menus. Note, it can take a second or two for the Manual Entry screen to be displayed.
17) Amended the maximum length of the Email field in Your Settings screen from 40 to 50 characters.
18) Rewritten how your preferences for printing and other program settings are saved in order to speed up the program on exit.
19) Added a new option on the menu that appears when you right mouse click the customer address on the Main Screen to copy the customer details to the clip board. There is also a button that copies the customer address to the clip board on the Customer Details screen. This is so that you can paste the address into alternative word processing programs, label writing programs etc.
20) Added OLE (Object Link And Embedding) to the Main screen. With this you can now drag a selection of appliances from SimplyPats into another OLE enabled program such as Microsoft Word (tm) or Microsoft Excel (tm). The App Id, Description, Test Date, Retest Period, Fail Reason and Notes can be copied.
Bugs
1) On the very first running of SimplyPats if the Find Appliance function is used, it fails to find appliance Id's correctly. Clicking on any column heading e.g. Appliance Id to apply a sort to the appliances fixes this issue. However code has now been added to add a default sort on the very first time the program is used.
2) On starting SimplyPats you were prompted if you wanted to check to see if there is an upgrade available. If you had no internet connection or your firewall was blocking such requests then an error was generated. This bug has been fixed and after an unsuccessful attempt to check for an upgrade the timer is set not to check for an upgrade for another month.
3) If you selected all but one record in a file and tried to delete them, simplypats crashed. This bug was caused by the addition of the photos in version 6 and has now been fixed.
4) The Folder Cover report was displaying a caption called Account Number. This displayed the notes from the Customer notes field. This caption and field have been removed from the Folder Cover as they were a special request from a SimplYPats user.
5) An error trap has been put in to detect if your PC display settings is set to 16bit. SimplyPats need to be run in High Colour 32bit.
6) On a PC with no version of Microsoft Office installed, the System Information screen was not showing that no office was installed.
7) On the Import and Update screen when printing the reports, the sort order incorrect, sorting by appliance id actually sorted by retest date, and vice versa
8) On printing an invoice, if in Print Settings you had ticked the box to print Contact name at start of address, and then not entered a contact name, you would get a blank line at the start of the customer address, this has now been checked for and removed.
9) Amended the Standard Certificate layout so that overwriting of the order number and the certificate extra text doesn't occur when you have all options set to show the customers full address including their contact name and email etc.
10) On Printing an Invoice, if you had selected to show the order No in the customer address, this was appearing at the end of the Customer Address on the Invoice, however there is a separate box on the Invoice for order no. The Order No is now not automatically appended to the customer address when printing an invoice.
11) On Selecting the Kewtech KT74/KT75 from the System Settings screen, the com port selection control was not always shown. This could be fixed by selecting another PAT tester first e.g. a Fluke, then selecting the Kewtech. The com port selector would then be shown. However this problem has now been fixed.
12) On the Passes, Fails and Passes and Fails reports, if you had used every line of your address and set to show email address, web address etc, the address block was printed very close to the Touch leakage header of those reports. A slightly bigger gap has been introduced.
13) In very rare circumstances, if the third character of an appliance id is a D or E preceeded by two numbers, and a new manual entry appliance is created then SimplyPats crashes with an error 6 "over flow". This is caused by the routine that tries to calculate the next appliance id on the manual entry screen. It appears appliance id's with letters and numbers are occasionally, very oddly, understood as numeric (for the technical, it sees them as hexadecimal). This problem is now fixed.
14) When creating a file of only manually entered pat tests, if you selected the Summary Of File screen prior to the file being saved, SimplyPats would crash. This is now fixed.
Version 6.0.0 (January 2010)
Additions
1) Rewritten SimplyPats installation program to deal with new Windows 7 operating system.
2) Rewritten all the SimplyPats automatic Emailing functions so that they will work with Windows 7.
3) Added a New screen where you can assign a photograph of your appliance. You can also add notes explaining what the photograph shows.
4) Added a new report showing any photographs assigned to appliances in your SimplyPats data file.
5) Added new fields to store Class, Fuse Rating and Appliance Serial Number.
6) Added Class, Fuse Rating and Appliance Serial Number to the Manual Entry screen.
7) Added new Fields to store RCD and Microwave Test Results.
8) Added new option on Right Hand mouse button (as well as on the records menu) to bring up Enter RCD and/or Microwaves screen.
9) Added New Report to Print Microwave Test Results.
10) Added New Report to Print RCD Test Results.
11) Re done the Current Appliance and Single Appliance per page reports to include Fuse Rating, Class, Appliance Serial No, Microwave and RCD information. The layout of the report has been tidied up to make it look more professional and a line added where a signature can be added.
12) Added a new feature to allow the automatic printing or creation of PDF's for a sequence of reports. You can select which reports you want, to which printer you want the report to be printed and the number of copies of each and whether a PDF is to be printed. This sequence is stored and can then be executed with a single click.
13) Added a new comprehensive Detailed Passed and Fails report.
14) Add a new Folder Cover printed report that gives you a folder cover to present as the front page of your bound reports.
15) Added a New Summary of Repairs screen which lists all the appliances and shows which Repairs and Charge Codes have been applied to each appliance.
16) Changed the List Sites screen to allow you to select multiple sites and save them in one go, rather than having to select each in turn.
17) Auto create disaster recovery file. This feature is designed to backup your file in case your computer crashes, you electricity fails, or you have made serious changes to your data and have accidentally saved the changes. Using this feature you can recover your original data whilst only loosing a maximum of 15 minutes work.
18) Added a New Screen which allows you to Reprint an old SimplyPats Invoice from the file Saved under the Invoicing Screen.
19) Added a check when SimplyPats starts to see if there is an update available from our web site.
20) Renewed the printed Invoice so that it contains the Invoicee address as well as the testing address and also the start and end dates of testing that the invoice covers.
21) Added a new screen "Maintain Location Abbreviations" which allows you to enter abbreviations for locations in your PAT tester. e.g. MR or 101 which will then be converted automatically into "Main Office reception" or whatever full location description you want.
22) Added the ability to edit the Quantity column in the Invoice screen, allowing you to overide the automatically calculated number of tests or repairs before calculatin gthe invoice.
23) New system for licencing SimplyPats Version 6 allows you to change your company name without relicencing the software or contacting our support number.
24) Added Invoicee Address and Testing start Date and Testing End Date to the Invoice file saved under the Invoicing Screen.
25) Changed the way charge and repair codes are displayed on the main screen. Instead of the codes being displayed, the full text descriptions are now being shown.
26) Added a new button to the Customer Quick Select screen which will Import the customer details from a selected customer into the data file you already have open.
27) Added a new button on the Invoicee Details screen that copies the Address details from the Customer Details. This is useful to save time if your invoicee has the same or similar address to the customer, saving you the need to copy type the majority of the information.
28) Added the ability to use custom reports on the internal printouts within SimplyPats e.g. the Missing Appliances report.
29) After downloading a PAT tester the Class field within SimplyPats is automatically calculated for Class I and Class II appliances dependant on their being an Earth Continuity test or not.
30) Added option on Import and Update screen to allow printing of ALL appliances or to select just those Found or those Unfound or those that are new.
31) Amended the allowed length of text in the Extra Invoice text field from 80 characters to 100 characters, in the Print Settings screen.
32) Removed the check when importing a file downloaded with one make of PAT tester into a file created by a different PAT Tester. A message is displayed warning you that mixing files from two different PAT Testers may cause problems, but allows you to override this.
33) Re written the Fluke 6500 download procedure to enable more reliable download with computers using USB to Serial converters with the Prolific Chip set. This should enable higher download speeds to be successful when using USB converters supplied by PC stores.
34) Added a new Export button on the print preview screen which allows the automatic creation of an Adobe Acrobat (tm) PDF document of your printed report and creates and attaches it to an email.
35) Added an option in the System Settings screen that turns off the automatic checking of Post Codes in the Customer, Invoicee and Your Address screens. As more customers outside the UK, New Zealand and Australia use SimplyPats this feature should enable them to enter their own format of post code.
36) Amended the Import and Update function so that any 0 retest periods do not over write the retest period in your master file.
37) Amended the "Backup Your Test Data" screen so that SimplyPats remembers the target path where the compressed data (zip file) is backed up to.
38) Changed the "Backup Your Test Data" screen so that SimplyPats uses the your current data path to find the SimplyPats data files and not the default data path (c:\program Files\SimplyPats 5\Data). This will be more useful if you are saving your data to a network drive or server.
39) Added code to the Import and Update screen so that the settings you select to decide which characteristics of the test data that are updated, are remembered when you re start SimplyPats.
40) Added a new option in the System Settings screen to suppress the question between adding each Manual Entry test result asking if you want to clear your entries. With this new tick box ticked, after adding a manual test result the entries won't be cleared after the test is added and neither will you be asked the question.
41) Amended Save Selected tests to enable the Saving out of just the current test result as a new file. Previously 2 or more tests had to be selected before this option was available.
42) Added a tick box in the System Settings Screen so to swap the use of the Fax Number field in your Customer details to Mobile Phone Number. The mobile phone number or fax is now displayed on the Calendar extra information and also sent to Microsoft Outlook if you are using that feature.
43) Added a function to stop users from hiding the right hand pane of results data completely. The right hand pane will now keep a minimum width.
44) Added 9 extra test price codes from U1 to U9 in addition to the P, PV, T, TV, H, HV, E, EV, and O and OV test price codes.
45) Added another option to the System Settings screen for the Megger PAT4 to allow the storing of either; VA Rating, Room Id, Serial Number or Repair code into the Notes field of SimplyPats.
46) Amended the Invoice printing in SimplyPats to now show ABN Reg. as opposed to GST Reg. if your PC regional settings are set to Australia.
47) Added a new sort order to the printing of reports. "Appliance Id (Strict)" sort order will order the appliances numerically on the Passes and Fails reports and override the default listing or site and location sort order.
48) Added an error trap to the Your Settings screen where you add a company logo or signature image. If an Invalid image is selected e.g. a JPG saved in CMYK a message will explain rather than just getting an error code.
49) Amend the installation routine of SimplyPats. If you re insert your SimplyPats CD on a PC that already has SimplyPats installed you will be told to uninstall the current copy of SimplyPats first. This will allow you to browse the SimplyPats installation CD for the Drivers for the USB to Serial converter that we commonly supply.
50) Removed the pop up message when SimplyPats starts if you have set a fixed Com Port. A static message appears in System Settings, PAT Settings to remind you that a fixed com port is set.
51) Amended the maximum allowable retest period to 72 Months. This will be available by default on new installations of SimplyPats 5.3.0 or above, however to use 72 months on existing installations of SimplyPats you will need to edit the SimplyPats Retest Periods.ini file. Please contact us if you have problems.
52) Added an optional line of customisable text to appear on the following reports: Passes, Fails, Passes and Fails, Appliance Register, Appliance Register By Group, Current Appliance, One Appliance per Page, Retest grouped By Date and Simplified Passes and Fails. This text can be set in the Print setup screen and maybe used to display for example your ISO9002 Registration, or the PAT tester Serial Numbers used in the testing.
53) Added a new drop down on the Manual Entry screen to select the Engineer or User that carried out the test, this saves you having to bulk change the users after entering your manual test results.
54) Changed the sort order on the print out of the Maintain Abbreviations screen. There are 2 columns, the print out now prints down then across, as opposed to across then down.
55) Added a setting to prevent the saving of data from SimplyPats, this may be useful where you want to have a copy of SimplyPats running on a PC where you don’t want to let people edit and then save the data. Contact support for details on this setting.
56) Added the facility to upload tests back to the Transmille 6080 Plus Pat Tester. Please contact support for an explanation of what data can be uploaded.
57) Added Test Date and Retest Date to the import and update screen.
58) Added Print Sort order drop down on Import and Update screen.
59) Amended Bulk Change Screen and Bulk Change of a Selection of appliances screen to allow Bulk change of Class and Fuse Rating.
60) When downloading the Megger PAT4 the fuse rating from the PAT tester is now download and stored in the fuse field in SimplyPats.
61) On the import and update screen added checks to update Fuse, class and Appliance Serial Number as well as RCD and Microwave tests within the checks for Test Data that is being updated.
62) As Support for SimplyPats is now provided free of charge, the need for Support Number has been removed from the Licencing screen.
63) Amended the Replace abbreviations routine to only warn of too long replacements at the end, rather than on each replacement that makes the appliance description greater than 50 characters.
64) Rewritten Print Sequence, Backup Data, System Settings and Diagnostic Download screens to cater for Windows 7 operating System.
65) Amended PAT4 Download routine to cater for an out of range Earth Leakage result where the PAT4 Sends a > symbol to signify a earth leakage of greater than 15mA but sets the pass fail flag on the test to a pass.
66) Changed format on the Repairs area of the Main screen so that where a repair doesn’t have an amount with it, no value is shown in the amount column as opposed to a zero value.
67) Added an optional setting in the .ini file of SimplyPats which will allow the use of some punctuation (full stop, apostrophe and dash) in your abbreviations so you can have an abbreviation HH-FF for example, without SimplyPats thinking it is 2 separate abbreviations HH and FF.
68) Added 3 Tick Boxes to the Print Setup screen to allow you to display (or hide) the Customers Contact Name, Order Number and/ or Email address on the Printed reports from SimplyPats.
Bugs
1) Amended reading of PATLink .opt files to ensure .opt files created by version 1 of PATLink when downloading the New Zealand / Australian variant of the AlphaPat are read correctly.
2) Flash test results were not correctly displayed on the Pass and Fails Report, they were all set to being skipped. This bug had been introduced when changes were made to Australian and New Zealand firmware versions of some PAT Testers. Flash test results are now shown correctly on this report.
3) Fixed a bug that prevented a customised "Simplified Passes and Fails" Report from being loaded
4) On the extra information displayed when clicking on a customer in the retest calendar, the Surname and Forename of the customer were swapped, giving "Mr Smith John" rather than "Mr John Smith" this has now been fixed.
5) When using the Import and Update feature, if Importing into a file that contains only one test an error was caused. Whilst it is unlikely that you would ever be maintaining a data file with just one test in, this bug has now been fixed.
6) When replacing abbreviations, if an appliance description contained a number e.g. "36.5" and an abbreviation was replaced on that description, the full stop was being removed from the number e.g. "36 5" and replaced with a space. This would also happen if commas or other punctuation was used. This has now been fixed.
7) On the Single Appliance Per Page report, if no Retest Periods were entered in the data then the Retest Date displayed was incorrect. This has now been fixed so the Retest Date displays the same date as the test date.
8) On downloading the Fluke 6500 if you had set to store the contents of the notes field on the PAT into the Retest Period in SimplyPats and the notes had contained very large numbers (for a retest period e.g. greater than 99 months) an error 6 was generated. Any very large retest periods are now ignored.
9) When using the find duplicates function, if there were more than 20 occurrences of the same Appliance Id then SimplyPats reports an error and stopped. It was only envisaged that there would be 2 or 3 occurrences of the same Appliance Id in a file at most. We have now increased the maximum permissible occurrences of the same Appliance Id to 100 in a data file. This error is only likely to happen if you are not using unique appliance id's or giving your appliances all the same id.
10) On the import and update feature, if you imported a file that contained information in the notes field, the existing notes field was only being overwritten if it was blank. Now, if you have the tick box set to import the notes field, the existing notes are always overwritten.
11) The import and update feature was only changing 1 item of the extra data out of the Notes, User, Fail Reason, Retest Period, PAT Serial, this has now been fixed so if any or all of these extra items are changed then they are imported.
12) On the List Sites and List Locations screens, if any sites or locations were listed that were all numeric e.g. a Site Called 1234 then the site was displayed as 1,234.00 that is in full number format. This has now been fixed and all numeric sites or locations are left unformatted.
13) When saving a Site from the list sites screen, if the Site name contained punctuation the SimplyPats couldn't save the file without you editing the filename. Now any illegal filename characters are stripped out of the filename.
14) SimplyPats was incorrectly determining which Version of Microsoft Office you were using, particularly with office 2007. This has now been fixed.
15) If you had set a VAT rate and details in the Your Settings screen created an invoice and then cleared the VAT details by selecting Tax type NONE and then created the invoice again, a run time error was produced. This fault clears itself if you restart SimplyPats after selecting tax type NONE, however in Version 6 the problem has been fixed.
16) After bulk replacing site or location on a selection of tests the List Sites or List Locations screens were not showing the new Site or Location. This has now been fixed.
17) When bulk replacing Appliance Description, Site or Location on a selection of tests if the new entry was entered in lower case then SimplyPats would display the new details in lower case. This would remain until the file was saved. Now entries are converted to upper case.
Version 5.2.9 (30/04/2009)
Additions
1) Added a new screen to manage importing new data file into a master file. This import screen allows you to see and update existing appliances, add new appliances and delete appliances that havent been found. This should greatly simplyfy the process of maintaining an update master file, particular for those users doing in house pat testing.
2) Check for Communication Ports when the Manual or Demo Versions of SimplyPats has been removed. This should speed up the loading of those versions.
3) Have removed the check for which Ports are a Modem when SimplyPats starts up. This should speed up the loading of SimplyPats for all versions and should reduce the possibility of problems whilst interrogating new mobile phone broadband USB donlges.
4) Have increased the maximum number of Com Ports that SimplyPats can check for up to 20 from 10. We have seen laptops which have 10 bluetooth com ports listed in Device Manager and this has caused problems for SimplyPats to find freely available standard com ports. This should also help finding USB to Serial com ports where the driver software has installed the USB to Serial com port at a very high number e.g. 14
5) Modified the Appliance Register Grouped By Site printed Report to allow a new custom report to be used which lists all the Sites and their Locations. This is particularly useful if you have a large site and want to understand which locations are in which site.
6) Added support for downloading the BetaPat Plus MI3304 and OmegaPat Plus MI3305
7) When creating an Invoice in Australia and New Zealand where GST is applied, the printed Invoice now contains the Header "Tax Invoice" as opposed to just "Invoice" which appears when creating a UK Vat Invoice.
8) Amended the Sort Order of the Simplified Passes and Fails Report to ensure all non contiguous appliances are grouped together under their respective sites and locations.
9) Added a check for Insphire rental software installed on the same PC as SimplyPats. One of the system files installed by Insphire may need updating to ensure SimplyPats runs correctly. This only applies if you are running the Insphire Rental Software program.
Bugs
1) Problem reading prior to Version 2 PatsLink data files caused by developement work done to make SimplyPats compatible with PatsLink Pro opt files.
2) On Transmille 6080 Download an extra space was left at the end of the appliance description after downloading. This has now been removed.
3) Have re written the Trio SmartCal Pro Logger II csv data import routine to address numerous issues with correctlty reading the data.
4) If Summary of File was chosen, prior to your data file being saved, an error was produced as the program couldnt work out the size of the saved file.
5) Saving selected records (File menu, save selected) where the test results had been grouped by dragging a column header into the group by box. If one of the group title rows had been selected then the save selected failed. This has now been fixed.
6) Have amended the sort order on the Simplified passes and fails report to keep all the appliances of a location grouped together.
Version 5.2.8 (26/02/2009)
Additions
1) Added a new option in System Settings so that when SimplyPats starts, your last edited data file is automatically loaded.
2) Added a drop down to the Manual Entry screen so that you can select which PAT tester was used.
3) Following a user request, have changed the TAB key order on the Manual Entry screen so that the cursor proceeds down the columns of limits and results, rather than accross the rows.
4) On the Manual Entry screen, when new sites or locations are entered they are made available on the drop down list. This list is now sorted into alphabetical order.
5) On selecting the Manual Entry Screen where you already have entered several Manual test results, the site, location, pat serial and retest period are set by default to those of the last test you entered.
6) Added predictive text to the Appliance Description on the Manual Entry screen. When start typing, a suggest list of words is displayed, clicking on one of these words will add them to the appliance description.
7) On Manual Entry screen added a drop down to allow the calculation of the next appliance id in 3 different ways: Number Of Records Plus 1, Highest Appliance Id Plus 1 and, Last Appliance Id Plus 1.
8) On Manual Entry screen when the cursor enters the results column, if the default value of "0.00" has not been changed, the whole entry is highlighted allowing you to overwrite the contents more easily.
9) On Manual Entry screen, if after having added several test results and limits you change the Visual status to a Fail and re-press the Auto button, all the test results are cleared and their status set to skip.
10) Added a drop down to the Manual Entry screen so that you can select a Fail Reason from your list of standard fail reasons.
11) On Manual Entry screen, Failed Test Results, Test Limits and Test status are shown in Red.
12) On Australian and New Zealand Version of Metrel BetaPat MI3303 changes made to deal with New Version of Firmware Version 1.18.
Bugs
1) On the main screen when selecting your PAT Tester serial number from the drop down list, the list was always showing one less than the number of testers you had entered. Thought this had been fixed in 5-2-7 but hadnt and caused more problems when only 1 pat tester was listed in the Maintiain Pat Testers screen. This has now been fixed.
2) When Bulk changing the date a selection of records, the new date was applied but the time of each test was set to 00:00. This has now been fixed so that the original time of test is retained.
3) On the Manual Entry screen, after creating a new test, you are prompted to clear the test results. This was also clearing the last location and site forcing you to reselect them for the next test. The last site, location, pat serial and retest period are now remembered between each test you add.
Version 5.2.7 (12/01/2009)
Additions
1) Added a new function on the Your Settings screen allowing you to specify a Signature image which you wish to be automatically displayed on your Portable Appliance Testing Certificate. Not only does this save you having to sign each certificate but will also enable you to email the certificate as a PDF to your customer with the signature included.
2) Added button on licence screen to open the SimplyPats Licence web page automatically.
3) Added two option buttons on the Retest Calendar screen to show either the First Retest for each customer, or all the unique retest dates for the customer.
4) Added two new sort options on the main screen to sort the list of tests by appliance id in numeric order and to sort tests in alphabetic order. Both sorts are ascending only. Right click the main list of appliances to see the menu with these new options.
5) Added two new options for the Fluke 6500 tester on download to assign the notes field on the tester to either the Fail Reason field or Notes field within SimplyPats.
6) Uploading to Megger PAT4 DV3. Have added the ability to upload appliance id's, appliance descriptions and testcodes back to the Megger PAT4 DV3. A maximum of 1000 appliances can be uploaded.
7) Added a new option in the Print settings to allow the Certificate to show just the month and year as opposed to a specific date, e.g Certificate Valid Until September 2008 rather than Certificate Valid Until 05/09/2008
8) Added ability to Import Megger PAT4 .asc data files from the File Open function. These files are the the raw data produced by the PAT and used by the Avo / Megger Powersuite Software.
9) Added more checks to make sure Network drives or external storage devices are available if they are used to store SimplyPats data files.
10) Amended the Pass Report, Fails Report and Passes and Fails Report to allow the displaying of Retest Date on these reports in addition to just the Test Date. A new set of freely available custom reports is available which includes the Restest Date in addition to a wider left hand margin (useful if you are binding the reports).
11) Amended the Robin SmartPat 5000 download so that the Notes field can be imported into the Appliance Description or, Notes, or Fail Reason field as in addition to using the Notes field for either the Retest Period or Charge and Repair Codes.
12) Added the ability to select a range of tests and email just those tests to a customer. This works in the same way as Save Selected and Print Selected tests, eg if you have selected a range of tests and click on the email button, SimplyPats will prompt you just to send those tests as a file. A temporary SimplyPats file is created and attached to the email.
13) Amended the email that is sent when you email a SimplyPats file from the program to contain more customer information.
14) Added a new simplified Appliances Report to the reports available on the print screen. This simplified report contains the Apliance id, Appliance Description, Test Date, Load, Insulation, Leakage and Earth Continuity Values and an overall Pass or Fail status.
15) Added a Print buttton to the Find Duplicates screen, allowing you to print a list of any duplicate appliance id's so you can give to an engineer or check whilst on site.
16) Added button on systems settings screen to open the data path folder with explorer.
17) Added a new screen to Maintain schemes of Test Limits which can then be selected from the Manual Entry screen. This will save time setting up the test limits when you manually add apppliances.
18) Added an auto set button which checks the test results against the test limits on the manual entry screen and automatically sets the pass fail status.
19) Added ability to TRIO SmartCal Pro Logger II .csv files from the File Open function. These files are produced by the STC Downloader Software available with the Pro Logger II Pat Tester.
20) Added a new button on the list sites screen which allows you to save tests of just one site. Selecting the site and clicking the save button prompts you for a file name. All the tests for the selected site are saved out as a new file.
21) Improved support for the Seaward 2000i download to cater for situations where PC might not be dealing with data quickly enough causing an incomplete download.
22) Amended the Maintain Pat Testers screen so you can add PAT Testers which are not in the drop down list of default PAT Testers so that you can add your own. Particularly useful for adding manual (non downloading) Pat Test machines.
23) Added a new button on the Main toolbar to access the Manual Entry screen.
Bugs
1) Please wait animation showing a white hourglass rotating was actually showing a green, waiting to connect to pat animation. This bug was introduced in V5-2-6 and is now fixed.
2) When exporting a PDF report where the customer name was being used for part of the filename (option in system settings) and the company name contained an illegal file name character e.g. " / ~ > etc an error 20477 was generated. This has now been fixed. Any illegal characters are replaced with spaces in the prompted filename on export pdf.
3) When downloading the Megger PAT4 where the PAT machine did not contain any test results, SimplyPats threw an unhadled error. A message now appears informing you that no test results were found in the data from the PAT.
4) On create Invoice, the up down buttons used to increment or decrement the invoice number were allowing a thousand separator comma to appear in the invoice number eg. 11,097 this has now been removed so invoice number appears correctly eg. 11097
5) On Creating an Invoice, an invoice number greater than 9999 could not be added, this has now been extended to 99999
6) On installing SimplyPats on Small Business Server 2003 a system file was not being deployed which was stopping some of the SimplyPats screens (Systems Settings, BackUp Data) from running. This file is now being correctly deployed.
7) Using the find screen to find numeric appliance id's was not always reliable. This seemed to happen on the very first time SimplyPats was run, or if the data had never been sorted. Sorting the data by appliance id alphabetic provides better searching for numeric or part numeric appliance id's.
8) The Missing Appliances utility has been rewritten as its seemed to have a multitude of issues, including not saving files to the chosen target path, not saving the missed appliances file as a correct SimplyPats version 5 format file. This program is available from the Start Menu, Program Files, SimpplyPats link on your computer.
9) On emailing data file, the customer details were not being included in the file being emailed. Note that the invoicee details if any are not sent in the emailed file.
10) On the main screen when selecting your PAT Tester serial number from the drop down list, the list was always showing one less than the number of testers you had entered.
11) When SimplyPats was minimised and then you right clicked on the task bar and selected close, SimplyPats would not close and also the window wouldn’t then restore. This has now been fixed.
12) On downloading the Megger PAT4 where a tick had been put in System Settings to automatically create a back up of the data, no backup was being made. This has now been fixed.
13) Fixed bug in Maintain PAT Testers where it wouldn't let you add a new PAT Serial. SimplyPats kept saying that you shouldn’t leave the serial number blank even when it wasn't blank.
Version 5.2.6 (12/08/2008)
Additions
1) Add a New Report, Excel or CSV output. This report is not intended to be printed but used to create a Microsoft Excel (TM) or CSV export file. The output doesn't contain anything other than the data in a format that is readable by Microsoft excel or for interfacing with a third party database.
2) Added ability to Import Fluke 6500 .flk data files from the File Open function.
3) New function to Import Appliance Descriptions from previous years testing, saving you from typing in Appliance Descriptions of known appliances.
4) The Find Duplicates command has been rewritten as it was cumbersome to use when you had many duplicated appliance id's. Now a screen is shown listing all the duplicated appliance id's, allowing you to select those you wish to delete.5) A new screen has been added to the Retests Calendar. When clicking on on a day in the calendar an information screen is now displayed giving contact information (Company Name, Contact Full Name, Phone Number and Email Address as well as retest period and count of tests) of all the customers that have retests due on that day. The screen also has a button allowing you to automatically email your customer.
6) A new screen has been added to find all your SimplyPats Data files and to show them in a list. You can use this file to quickly list and sort all your customers and Open the customer's data.7) The Sorting Order that can be set using the drop down on the Print Preview screen of the printed test result reports is now being saved when you leave the SimplyPats program and restored when you print out your test results.
8) The Calculations for the Retest Date displayed on the Printed Certificate have now been changed to reflect either the selected tests (When using the Print Selected Tests option), or the Site or Location selected on the Print Preview screen.
9) Added the Total Number of tests in the current file to the Summary Of Tests screen.
10) New Custom Report (downloadable free from our website) which adds Pat Serial Number and Pat User to the Appliance register grouped by site.
11) Added a Find Customer function to the Retests Calendar to search for customers.
12) Added Navigation buttons to the Retests Calendar to advance or retreat the calendar either a week, month or year according to the view you currently have selected.
13) When downloading the Fluke 6500 tester, the download screen displayed the number of lines of data read. This gave a number much greater than the number of tests being downloaded which was confusing. Now the download screen displays the number of tests being downloaded.
14) Changed currently selected day in Retests Calendar to make it more visible.
Bugs
1) Default database not being installed which is used to export simplypats data a Microsoft access database.
2) When Deleting a customer file from the Review Customers screen, the file appeared to be removed from the list but the actual data file was never deleted. This has now been fixed.
3) When printing from the Review Customers screen an error was caused, unfortunately this was a bug introduced in version 5.2.5. It has now been sorted.4) When automatically creating a word document from SimplyPats on a PC with Office 2007 installed, SimplyPats informed you that it couldn’t complete the task as you needed to upgrade your version of Microsoft Office. This has now been fixed.
Version 5.2.5 (22/04/2008)
Additions
1) Added error trapping in routines used to calculate earth bond limits. Very occasionally a Metrel Alpha PAT has been seen to send an invalid character (a question mark) in the test code. This charcter cannot be evaluated as a correct earth bond limit and so caused the program to crash. As the Pass and Fail status is not calculated by the test code for Metrel Testers, the code is ignored in the event of receiving an invalid character.
2) Added compatibility for Martindale MicroPat+ Pat Tester
3) Added new screen to Send Retest Dates as appointments to Mircosoft Outlook. If you have Microsoft outlook 2000 or above installed you can send customer details to Outlook to managae your retest dates.
4) Set to automatically include sub folders on Backup your data screen. Originally this tick box was unset and so backups wouldnt contain any data files in sub folders.
5) Added an Option in the Print Settings screen to show the Filename of the current file in the footer when printing the Passes, Fails, Passes and Fails, Appliance Register, Appliance Register Grouped By Site, and Retests Reports.
6) Added an Option in the System Settings Screen (Program Tab) to use suggest the data file name as the name when exporting a report as opposed to generating an export filename by adding the Customer Name to the Name Of Report and Date.
7) Amended Labels Report to allow printing to Dymo or similar label printer when using a custom report.
8) Retests calendar button added to the toolbar options available when no simplypats data file is loaded.
9) Added support for the New version of the Metrel Beta Pat double test facility. This is where you can test an appliance followed immediately by the appliances IEC lead. SimplyPats now recognises this double test and shows it as two separate tests in the program.Bugs
1) When a file loaded with only one test result, Right Mouse button clicking on the customer address did not bring up the menu to allow you to email or write word document to that customer.
2) When printing an invoice immediately after loading a SimplyPats file, your company logo was not shown. This did not happen if you had been into the Your Settings screen, or printed any other reports prior to printing the Invoice. This bug has been fixed and the your company logo is shown (if you have one) even when trying to print after immediately opening a file.
3) Fixed printing for Seaward 2000i Files. A bug introduced after version 5.2.2 prevented these files from printing. This has been fixed.
4) On the Your Settings screen, You company name was not always being shown in the protected gray field at the top of the screen. While only cosmetic this has now been fixed.
5) Very infrequently on some users installations, the Calendar and or Review Customers screen would not load. This was caused by a temporary screen sizes file not being saved correctly. Should this happen in the future the screen will automatically be maximised and the screen will load without an error.
6) After opening a SimplyPats data file and the first time you spell check, the close cross on the top right of the spelling suggestions screen did not stop the spell check process.
7) The example abbreviations deployed contained 2 entries for HINARI which when maintaining abbreviations prompted user with a error message. One of the HINARI entries had to be removed before you could add a new abbreviation.
Version 5.2.4 (18/02/2008)
Additions
1) Added compatibility for New Zealand / Australian firmware version of the Metrel Beta PAT
2) Added Help Page for Diagnostic Download screen.
3) On creating a Diagnostic download file more information has been added to the automatic email sent and the subject line has been corrected to say its a diagnostic file.
4) Modifed the Manual Entry screen to allow the entry of Earth Continuity 2 test in place of Flash Data for the New Zealand / Australian firmware version of the Metrel Beta PAT
5) Added Help section on how to download Fluke 6500 Pat tester.
6) Added Help section on how to download PAT Tester using Hyperterminal for fault tracing.
7) Added Help section on how to download Megger PAT4 Pat Tester.
8) New Free Utility created that analyses all your SimplyPats Files and displays a report of how many PAT tests have been done by each engineer over a specified period.
9) Free Utility to compare two SimplyPats files and show which appliances have been moved or are missing has been updated.
10) Added Help section on how to download Robin SmartPat 5000 Pat Tester
11) Added compatibility for Transmille 6080 and 6080 PLUS Pat Testers
12) Added Links in Windows Start Menu and SimplyPats Help Menu to the SimplyPats Web Forum.
13) Added an alternate mapping for the text fields from the Seaward 2000i so that different two sets of uses can be assigned to each of the text fields.
14) Added Tick Box in System Settings screen for Europa Plus and SUpernova Plus Pat Testers which do not have the latest frimware. This allows Line 2 of the notes fields to be used for the Retest Period as the early versions of the Europa Plus and SUpernova Plus Pat Testers do not separately prompt for Retest Period.
Bugs
1) On creating a diagnostic download file the mouse pointer was left permanently in an hour glass or wait state.
2) On creating a diagnostic download file, the file was always emailed even if you had selected not to email it.
3) On create diagnostic file option to close program after download has been removed as this was causing program not to exit correctly.
4) On create a diagnostic download, if file name contained / or . in the company name of customer the program crashed with an invalid path error. This has now been fixed.
5) When adding a manual entry test on a data file created by a Seaward Pat Tester, the program crashed due to incorrect Earth Continuity limits being read. This is now fixed.
6) Hidden baud rate selection when downloading Megger PAT4 as you can only download at 9600 baud.
7) On download of fluke 6500 and robin 5500 and 500 added prompt to show data downloading.
8) On Fluke 6500, Megger PAT4. Kewtech KT75, Robin 5500/500 download screens had maximize and minimize buttons enabled. These have been removed.
9) On the System Settings screen the option for the Megger PAT 4 to select whether it's a new or old version of the PAT Tester wasn't being saved when you exited the program.
10) On the System Settings screen the option for the Megger PAT 4 to use the Serial Number field for Charge and Repair codes wasn't being saved when you exited the program.
11) After changes to SimplyPats to install program on computers with Windows Vista, the System Information screen no longer displayed the description of those system files that have been installed.
12) Fixed download problem with Robin SmartPat 5000 Pat Tester which cause the PAT tester not to communicate with the PC.
13) Trying to add a manual test to a Kewtech data file caused the program to crash.
14) Printing of Kewtech data file caused the program to crash as it tried to calculate the test voltage.
15) Selecting to show Tip Of the Day as well as setting a Password to enter SimplyPasts caused the program to crash on startup - this has now been fixed.
16) On Selecting Europa+ / Supernova+ on the System Settings screen, the function for Line 2 of the notes field was being changed to be used for Notes instead of Retest Period. This is now fixed and regardless of whether using a Europa/Supernova or Europa+/Supernova+, the second line of notes is used for Retest Period (should you select it).
17) On Validate Data the wrong appliance was being highlighted in the main screen as having an error. Also if the first Appliance had an error then it was not being highlighted. This has now been fixed.
Version 5.2.3 (30/11/2007)
Additions
Added compatibility with Kewtech KT74 and KT 75 testers.
Bugs
If an invoicee was added to a customer file the invoicee address was not printed on the invoice. This has now been fixed.
Version 5.2.2 (19/10/2007)
Additions
Extended the amount of abreviations alowed from 500 to 2000
Bugs
When editing a site or location on the main screen and entering an apostrophe in the new site or location, if you chose to change all sites or locations to the new site or location, you would be repeatedly asked the same question. This has now been fixed.
When adding a series of manual entry tests, then deleting one and adding a subsequent manual entry test, the deleted manual entry test reappeared. This fault has now been cured.
The email data function was causing an error. This has now been fixed.
Version 5.2.1 (14/09/2007)
Additions
Modified both SimplyPats and the help documents to reflect the release of our new cheap rate 0845 support telephone number.
Bugs
On the summary of tests report, the owner of the Simplypats program was displayed rather than the customers name. This is now changed to show the customers name.
Version 5.2.0 (22/06/2007)
Additions
The Print Results screen has been modified to ensure better sorting of reports.
The maximum number of tests in a single SimplyPats customer file has been extended from 9500 to 20,000
Added a new 'Raw Data Download' Screen with zip and email functions.
Decreased file open and save times.Bugs
Minimise button enabled on print results which if pressed caused SPS to crash
Having the auto save function enabled sometimes caused the program to crash if you were in the middle of searching for an appliance
Upon deleting multiple records, the main grids row jumps to record one; this has now been modified so that it stays near the original row.Version 5.1.1 (13/04/2007)
Bugs
The company logo was not consistently showing on the invoices, this has now been fixed.
The Maintain extra charges screen only allowed 6 characters for the first column, this was a bug that should have allowed 50 characters and has now been fixed.
Printing results downloaded from the fluke 6500 caused a program error, this has now been fixed.Version 5.1.0 (03/03/2007)
Additions
Significantly reduced the time taken to load larger SimplyPats files
Find facility added to Maintain Test Prices, Maintain Repair Prices and Maintain Extra charges screen.
New Word facility added to Maintain Dictionary Screen to add your own words outside of the Spell Check routine.
Print facility added to Extra Charges screen.
Sort Columns and Record Counter added to Maintain Test Prices, Maintain Repair Prices, Maintain Extra charges, Maintain PAT Testers, Maintain Dictionary, Maintain Abbreviations, List Sites, List Locations and Maintain Default Fails screens.
Increased speed of changes to locations and sites after using the Locations List or Sites List screens to update locations or sites.
Added Search subfolders option to Backup Data screen to search and store any files in subfolders below your main data folder.
Added a check box displayed when viewing a custom report, this allows you to switch the report layout between the custom and the standard report.
Status bar on main screen now shows when the customer has invoicee details.
Increased the maximum allowable number of sites and locations from 250 to 1000 in a single file.
Increased the Licence Name field form 40 to 50 chars to allow for very big company names when resitering SimplyPats.
Updated the limits shown in the Main grid and Printed Reports for the Seaward 2000i tester
Increased the maximum length of the Appliance Description field from 30 to 40 chars.
Print Selected - If you select a series of records on the main grid before printing, you are given the option to print just the selected records.
Added a USB to Serial check box when setting up Seaward Pats for download where 'odd' usb to serial converters used.Bugs
Modified questions boxes background colour as some Windows Theme colours affected the way it was shown.
Status bar wasnt being resized perfectly when resizing the SimplyPats program
Modified the reports to show the skipped clamp results correctly.
An error was found with the manual entry screen, if using it for the first time before setting up a pat-tester.
The Repairs section on the main screen wasnt being resized perfectly when vertical split was moved.
On the back up screen window could be resized. This has now been prevented.
Modified the reports so that the font-size is now changed on the print-settings screen.
When manually selecting a PAT tester on the main grid, only 1 pat tester was listed.
Modified the repair scheme for labour, now calculates the cost per minute more acuratelyVersion 5.0.29 (11/12/2006)
Bugs
Relaxed tax reg number validation.
Some systems were crashing whilst performing the bulk replace routine.
The List Locations and List Sites screens were unstable. This was partly caused by using our own custom message box. This has now been replaced with a standard Windows message box.Version 5.0.28 (01/12/2006)
Additions
Upon exit from system and print settings, the SimplyPats.ini file is updated to save any changes.
Bugs
Print settings screen modified to include more variable validation.
A bug was found in Import invoicee details, this has now been fixed.
Added active x component checking on review customers / retest calender.Version 5.0.27 (02/11/2006)
Bugs
Some installations crashed when validating the data for passes and fails (Only for the Seaward Range of Testers). This was caused by using our own custom message box. This has now been replaced with a standard Windows message box.
Version 5.0.26 (20/10/2006)
Additions
Added ini file switch to disable office and outlook checks. To initiate add these 2 keys to the [System Settings] key in the SimplyPats.ini
Disable Word Check=1
Disable Outlook Check=1Bugs
Modified Seaward Download routine to enhance stability.
Version 5.0.25 - 16/10/2006
Bugs
Fixed an error when deleting items from the main screen that caused the Test Number (TestNo) to loose sync i.e. preceding test numbers did not update to reflect the changes.
When adding a new abbreviation the validation routine caused an error if triggered.
Fixed several small errors within the manual entry feature that caused SimplyPats to crash or not print reports if the file contained only one test. Other problems also existed when using this feature while manually imputing certain information.Version 5.0.24 - 12/09/2006
Bugs
The Maintain Pat-tester screen was causing an error when changing Tester type.
Importing SPS 4 files caused and error.
The path to the default data folder was incorrect on some installations.Version 5.0.23 - 25/08/2006
Additions
Allow importing from any Metrel tester over any Metrel testers.
Added the Seaward 2000i tester to the Maintain PAT Testers screen
Added a Time field to the manual entry screen.
Added sort options (App Id, App Description, Retest Date) to the following reports. Fails, Passes, Passes and Fails, Appliance Register, Appliance Register by Site.Bugs
Stop a loop of message boxes on the print screen when no location was chosen.
The way that the reports grouped their results led to some reports having blank pages or bad grouping.Version 5.0.22 - 14/07/2006
Bugs
Fixed a missing data error when downloading from Metrel testers.
Version 5.0.21 - 10/07/2006
Additions
Manual Entry Screen added to allow you to add test results in the event of having a non-downloadable Pat Test machine such as the fluke 5200.
System Settings screen tidied up to centre options for each PAT Tester.
Finalised settings for the Seaward 2000i tester on the System Settings screen - allowing the Text fields on the tester to be used for SimplyPats Data.Bugs
On a very small proportion of Seaward Europa Plus PAT Testers an extra character of data is sent on the first test record. This was causing problems when interpreting the data - this has now been tested for and an allowance made.
The file created by saving selected records from the main screen would not reload as a separate file. This problem has now been fixed.
When deleting a range of records where the appliances had been grouped caused the program to crash.
If a Group By item had been set, and a new file loaded, an error message complaining about Repair codes was called preventing you from choosing any other menu item. This has now been fixed.
When The Grid is Grouped, The Record count was displaying its record total records incorrectly. This has now been fixed.
Upon exit, user is asked if they would like to save changes, if they cancel - they are still prompted that they may overwrite this file.
When performing a bulk replace on selected items where appliances had been grouped caused the program to crash.
Added extra repair code validation for the 2000i.Version 5.0.20 - 19/06/2006
Additions
First full Retail Version of SimplyPats Version 5
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