Reporting Engine Release Notes

These notes are also in the readme.rtf file that is included with the program.

6.1.0.0 (Beta)

New Features

• Vertical text working for HTML, XLS(X) (all outputs now supported)

Bug Fixes

• Numbering list text start now correct.
• Microsoft Excel dates off by one day – fixed.
• Bullet position for non-left alignment – fixed.

6.0.5.0

New Features

• Completely new code for part of the engine that handles soft line & page breaks - mainly used by PDF and TXT output.
• Vertical text now supported. (HTML & Excel not supported in this version, but will be in next release).

Bug Fixes

• Numbered lists in the form 1.2.3 starting with the 2nd or later number being incremented, preceding numbers were 0 for a PDF report - fixed
• Numbers and dates a written “raw” from out tags for Excel output. Will always use cell formatting - only if out tag is only data in cell.

6.0.4.1

New Features

• (Excel Supported) Tabs in XML data now expanded into tabs.

Bug Fixes

• Break=sheet/page/odd/even and name='${var}' - name for break='sheet' only.
• Hard row page breaks in Excel supported.
• Hard column page breaks supported in XLSX output only.

6.0.3.4

Bug Fixes

• Sometimes wrong font was used for Asian and bi-directional output in RTF and PDF - fixed.
• If Excel output had a cell with a number and then to it's right did not have a number, the number would get copied - fixed.
• Writing cell values in forms other than 12345.67 – fixed
• Updated help files.

6.0.3.2

Bug Fixes

• XLSX templates with column widths set for more columns than in the worksheet would add in those extra columns - fixed
• If a Word style was used only in a list and it was based on a style that was only used in the based on, threw an exception - fixed.

6.0.3.0

Bug Fixes

• Could not handle empty worksheets in SpreadsheetML output - fixed.
• Excel template to Excel output now supports fit to page & scale output page.
• XLS output now set to correct orientation and page size.
• XLSX reports with images that had no extension in the filename displayed an error when opened - fixed.
• Added support for footers in XLS output (was previously headers only).
• Addes support for full formatting in XLS headers & footers
• Numbers over 999,999,999 were stored as 0 for the cell value in XLS and XLSX output - fixed
• XLS reports now support cell color fills and borders
• PDF reports from XLSX templates would insert blank pages if the first row of a new page had empty cells - fixed
• Multiple sheets in XLS output would shift the start of subsequent sheets down to the row after the previous sheet ended - fixed.
• Multiple sheets in XLS output would keep writing the sheet name to the first sheet - fixed.

6.0.2.0

Bug Fixes

• If change tracking is on in template, it will be on in created Word documents.
• PDF reports with consecutive paragraphs with identical borders and shading had borders drawn around each individual paragraph - fixed
• Hyperlinks across multiple cells in an XLSX template could throw an exception creating document (IE not XLSX, XLS) reports.
• Excel number formatting handled some formats incorrectly if the number's value was 0 - fixed.
• Did not recognize bold and underline in XLSX templates - fixed
• Significantly sped up handling IF tags that evaluate false (and forEach with 0 rows).
• Use Big5 instead of Cp950 for traditional Chinese charset in RTF output

6.0.1.1

Bug Fixes

• Links now carry across cells.
• Positioned images displayed correctly in DOCX.
• Charts in MS Excel default to 1/2 the sheet width.
• Now handles adjusting references inside forEach loops.
• Set cell value if the text is a number regardless of source.

6.0.1.0

New Features

• Full image support now available in Excel templates.
• New Samples and Help System
• Excel average() function

Bug Fixes

• Select replaced with 0 length string (disables select).
• Could not open XLSX & DOCX files (extra read error) – Fixed.
• XPath query has 0 rows, can still use in other XPath

6.0.0.1

New Features

• Templates Implemented for Microsoft Excel

Bug Fixes

• Charts in table with no height set will not display – fixed.

5.1.9

Bug Fixes

• Matrix tag - bug if out, etc tags in same cell as row/column tag and ${var} was used in the row/col tag
• Engine - fixed a possible memory leak

5.1.8

New Features

• XML datasource root directory implemented

Bug Fixes

• Docx output with images in the .NET engine & AutoTag did not work – fixed.
• Xpath datasource - forEach ${var.node} would always return just 0 or 1 nodes

5.1.7

Bug Fixes

• Cell padding implemented

5.1.6

Bug Fixes

• Changed property names for row and column (matrix) tags.
• Bug in font size when Normal style does not set it's font size in WordML – fixed.
• DOCX reports generated incorrect mapping for reports with metafiles - fixed.

5.1.4

New Features

• Implemented bookmarks and watermarks capability for PDF output

Bug Fixes

• Improved DOCX support
• Function tag count=0 now returns "0" – Fixed
• List styles in WordML and DOCX - Fixed

5.1.3

New Features

• Added the Matrix tag to provide cross-tab support.
• Added support for the DOCX (Word 2007) file format.
• Added support for commandline access of all databases.
• Changed Oracle to return all tables & views instead of just owner tables & views

5.1.0.0 (Beta)

Bug Fixes

• File MetaDataElement was genereated with obfuscation – fixed it is now not obfuscated.

5.0.4.2

New Features

• Initial Support for docx templates and output. VERY LIMITED in Beta Release

Bug Fixes

• Display='boolean expression' not working for xml datasources in the .NET engine - fixed.
• When going to edit a header or footer Word could lock up - fixed.
• Next/Prev tag handles title correctly
• title= now works for end tags (, etc).
• Chart axis set to percent now shows 12.3%

5.0.4.1

Bug Fixes

• Image appears as first item in multiple columns causes exception - fixed.
• OleDb datasource in AutoTag - several bugs fixed.
• Illegal property entered in AutoTag, can now correct and save.
• Bug generating report in AutoTag using a Locale and having out tag with currency fixed.

5.0.4.0 (General Availability)

New Features

• This version is feature complete for Windward Engine 5.0.
• Added the enables, title, and comment property to each tag.
• Changed the logging to list out tag parsing and data substitution and the paragraph each occurs in.