27Jun10 A new install program is used to simplify Windows 7 requirements. 07Jun10 Form: Fix for spurious error message. 23Apr10 Increase categories in Frequencies from 50 to 99. 14Apr10 Databank redirection: allow longer paths (70 chars). 06Apr10 Form: Audit log comments: fix for text var. display. 02Apr10 Changes in Form to support European and special chars. 15Dec09 Export to Excel: extra precaution to make sure extension is .xls. 08Sep09 Members(datalist): listing now sorted on 1st variable. 18Aug09 Minor change to better support Adobe printer. 28Jul09 Release of version 2009-8. Increase maximum dictionary size 3000 -> 4000 variables. 06Jun09 Increase form capacity further. Fix spurious error message in Compute Allow Remote to handle Image file info. 16Feb09 Minor change in data entry for image entries in tables. 09Jan09 Minor change to support new F2 printer assignment in Stat. Pgms. 23Dec08 Release of version 2009-1. New startup graphics. Define: Maximum number of variables increased to 3000. PrintOptions: Ability to select MEDLOG printer added. Form,Report,etc. Support for Dicom (*.dcm) graphics added. 29Oct08 Fix in Remove utility for databanks with > 2000 dictionary vars. 28Sep08 Export: allow decoding of transformed extracted variables. 22Sep08 CrossTabs: Fix for cutpoint editing problem. 15Sep08 Help files: improve formatting in several places. 03Sep08 Export: SAS format: new option for fixed text length 28Aug08 Create: Added builtin vars LASTENC and NUMENCS to transpose file Form: fix for problem deleting table images. 30Jul08 Fix for display of Images in Letter and Report. A width of zero now means that the original size of the graphic will be displayed. 25Jul08 Form: fix for message "Unable to load form". This could occur on form names which were 4 characters long. 18Jul08 Form Editor - lines beginning with a semicolon (column 1) in the fields section are now comment lines 21May08 Excel data format changed to version 97. Group: Minor correction for wildcard matches. 24Apr08 Extract - Transform. Result var can be typed as TABLE or TEXT if the result variable is so defined in the dictionary. 04Apr08 New table variables can have 64K entries. Was 32K. 26Feb08 Minor message changes in Extract. Correction in interface of Merge. 12Feb08 Communicate: excel format for Norway -- minor change. 10Jan08 Version 2008-2 with Databank Notes feature. ------- Other significant changes in past 48 months. Increase capacity (2500 vars) in Export and Remote. Max number of passwords in a databank increased from 8 to 48. See web site for details. New timeout features, and password expiration expiration periods. See web site for details. Command files can now be run from a Windows batch file. Syntax is MEDLOG2K ddd:uuu/pass$cmd where ddd=databank, uuu=user, /pass is optional password and cmd=command file name. Define: when making duplicate (multiple) new variables, retain the positions with zeros at the end. e.g. VAR001, next VAR002, etc. New facility in Define to dump the dictionary into Excel. Maximum number of variables increase from 1500 to 2500. Table index searching now case insensitive. Form: The underline color (during data entry) can indicate the nature of the field (blue=time variant; green = invariant; fuchsia = local form variable). !OPTIONS COLOROPT must be added to the form for this to be enabled. New Form option for printing: BOLDOPT (for changed values) Causes bolded (changed) values to be underlined too. Backspacing or Delete can now set field to missing (?). Search for content in tables now possible. Surround search string with asterisks for searching the selected index field. Use pound signs for searching all text fields. Result will show matching records. New table lookup functions added: TBLNDXT for text elements and TBLNDXN for numerics. See web site for details. New [!END] field allows better control over how a form terminates. See web site for details. Enable tabs in Form Editor. See web site for details. New image background capability added in Form. See news article on the web site. Options ENDOPT,CHANGESOPT,ABORTOPT added. Field specification POPUP "message" added. Input fields now use fonts matching the form. New "print" form as a .jpg now available. Form names up to 40 characters now allowed. max chars in a line increased from 120 to 240. goto [!abort] causes action the same as pressing Esc key. Cause beep if display message begins with tilde ~. Form Editor: test for wrapped lines added to Syntax Check. Allow more than 6 continuation lines (old limit). ASCII: increase max line length from 256 to 999. Extract file capacity increased: 8000 variables (including transforms) maximum. Faster transform processing. Extract suffixes 10R through 99R and 10P through 99P added. Maximum number of splits increased from 20 to 100+ Export: Allow max of 255 characters of notes in export to Excel. Group: Maximum number of groups increased from 1000 to 2000. Capability added to make an enumeration group from any other group. Report: Report names can be up to 40 chars long (old limit was 7). Report capacity increased to over 5000 variables/fields. Syntax checker (checks brackets, parens) added (letter too) New keyword DATESTAMP=yes/no, used to turn off automatic date stamps or titles. (see manual) Create: maximum vars in transposed file may be created in DBOpts. Error messages are now highlighted in red. Compute: Allow longer compute lines (250 chars). Old limit was 130. Cox regression: odds ratios and 95% conf. intervals now displayed. Xtabs, Bargraph: new 2-tailed Fisher exact test added. Audit log now includes changes to variables which are set by assignment (in fields section). New access log option. See web site for details. Settings now include option for note logging. Missing value tracking: Allow longer (40->60 chars) comments. Log-Tracking and Editor date values sent to Excel now have formats which are easy to sort. Add date/time to printing in Forms Designer. Add print feature to system menu of almost all windows. Databank options: only user with admin. password can set certain options. New print option to add operator initials to printouts. New SAS Export format with longer SAS names.